Fabian Tracts: 1980s

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Tract Title Author Year
466 Taxing wealth inequalities| C Pond, L Burghes and B Smith 1980
467 Open up!| Britain and freedom of information in the 1980s Trevor Barnes 1980
468 Socialism at the grass roots| Evan Luard 1980
469 A radical agenda for London| Peter Hall (editor) 1980
470 The two wage worker|: common ownership and economic democracy Roger Carroll 1980
471 Race and affirmative action| John Bowers and Suzanne Franks 1980
472 Justice, welfare and juvenile delinquents| John May 1980
473 Socialism and professionalism|: the social welfare professions Paul Wilding 1981
474 A British approach to peace| Neville Brown 1981
475 No nukes!| [regarding nuclear power] Robin Cook 1981
476 How to abolish the Lords| Stuart Bell 1981
477 The Labour Party and the new left| David Webster 1981
478 Against all reason|: Britain and South Africa in the eighties Margaret Legum, Jenny Little, Donald Roy, David Stephen 1981
479 Enforced leisure; enforced education| Ray Kohn 1982
480 Making government work| David Lipsey (editor) 1982
481 The future of collective bargaining| David Basnett 1982
482 Margaret Cole, 1893-1980| Betty Vernon (editor) 1982
483 Electoral reform| Tom Ellis, Rosaleen Hughes and Phillip Whitehead 1982
484 Against metropolis|: socialism and decentralisation Christopher Harvie 1982
485 Economic recovery|: what Labour must do Bryan Gould, John Mills, Austin Mitchell and Shaun Stewart 1982
486 The economic consequences of Mrs Thatcher | Nicholas Kaldor 1983
487 Urban policies|: a new approach David Donnison 1983
488 Low pay|: Labour's response E Maclennan, C Pond and J Sullivan 1983
489 Labour's choices| Roy Hattersley, Eric Heffer, Neil Kinnock and Peter Shore 1983
490 Law and order|: theft of an issue David Downes 1983
491 Building from the bottom|: the Sheffield experience David Blunkett and Geoff Green 1983
492 The Conservatives, trade unions and political funding| Keith Ewing 1983
493 The Fabian Society|: its early history [reprint of Fabian Tract 41 with new preface] George Bernard Shaw (preface by Melvyn Bragg) 1984
494 Equality, markets and the state| Raymond Plant 1984
495 Socialist values and time| Bernard Crick 1984
496 Socialism and decentralisation| Anthony Wright, John Stewart and Nicholas Deakin 1984
497 Occupational pensions|: the failure of private welfare Carl James 1984
498 Social security|: the real agenda. The Fabian Society's response to the government's review of social security. Brian Abel-Smith, Peter Townsend and others 1984
499 Towards a democratic Central America| Hugh O'Shaughnessy 1984
500 Why are the many poor?| Peter Townsend 1984
501 Labour and a world society| Denis Healey 1985
502 Socialism can survive|: social change and the Labour Party Michael Mann 1985
503 The Swedish road to socialism| Martin Linton 1985
504 Understanding the miners' strike| John Lloyd 1985
505 A new housing policy for Labour| David Griffiths, Chris Holmes 1985
506 Who controls training?| – the rise of the Manpower Services Commission Caroline St. John-Brooks 1985
507 Winning women's votes| Lisanne Radice (ed)
508 Freedom at work|: towards the reform of Tory employment laws William McCarthy 1985
509 The future of socialism| Neil Kinnock 1986
510 Beyond nuclear deterrence| Denis Healey 1986
511 Managing local socialism| Alan Alexander 1986
512 French lessons for Labour| Denis MacShane 1986
513 The consumer case for socialism| Martin Smith 1986
514 Equality and quality|: a socialist plan for education Giles Radice 1986
515 Labour and youth|: the missing generation John Mann, Phil Woolas 1986
516 Market socialism whose choice?| Ian Forbes (ed) 1986
517 New roads to equality|: contract compliance for the UK John Carr 1987
518 An investment bank for the UK| Dennis Turner, Charles Williams 1987
519 Labour's first hundred days| Ben Pimlott (ed) 1987
520 Beyond Band Aid|: charity is not enough Joan Lestor and David Ward. 1987
521 Labour's next moves forward| Jeremy Beecham, Donald Dewar, Martin Linton, Oonagh McDonald, Austin Mitchell, Tom Sawyer and Chris Smith 1987
522 Conviction politics|: a plan for penal policy Stephen Shaw 1987
523 The politics of prosperity| Charles Leadbeater 1987
524 Can governments manage the economy?| Jim Tomlinson 1988
525 Bringing common sense to the Common Market|: a left agenda for Europe David Martin 1988
526   UNAVAILABLE
527 Case for equality| Margaret Drabble 1988
528 Making the City work| David Goodhart, Charles Grant 1988
529 Life begins at 40|: in defence of the NHS Robin Cook 1988
530 Socialism, merit and efficiency| Paul Corrigan, Trevor Jones, John Lloyd and Jock Young 1988
531 Citizenship, rights and socialism| Raymond Plant 1988
532 Labour can still win| Martin Linton 1988
533 Working for common security| Nick Butler, Len Scott, David Ward and Jonathon Worthington 1989
534 Natural allies|: Labour and the unions Martin Upham and Tom Wilson 1989
535   UNAVAILABLE  
536 Does society exist?| The case for socialism Brian Barry 1989


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Fabian Tracts

 

Why are the many poor (cover of tract 1)

 

Family life on a pound a week (cover of tract 162)

 

Equality, liberty, fraternity (cover of tract 152)

 

Thomas Paine (cover of tract 217)

 

The Fabian turtle (from tract 251)

 

More socialisation or less (cover of tract 268)

 

Beatrice and Sidney Webb (cover of tract 297)

 

Dwell together in unity (cover of tract 313)

 

The new right (cover of tract 387) 

 

The politics of the environment (cover of tract 412)

 

The computer and society, Fabian Tract 457

 

Information age government (cover of Fabian Tract 582)