G. D. H. Cole was one of the foremost British socialist thinkers of the twentieth century. His literary output was immense and encompassed works of social theory, economics, political economy, economic history, social and labour history, political theory, history of thought and sociology. The books and pamphlets chosen for this edition are amongst his most significant. They are representative of the different phases of his thinking and illustrative of an acute and inquiring socialist mind as it wrestled with the formidable political and intellect challenges confronted by socialists in this most turbulent of centuries.
This set re-issues 10 works of the well-known socialist thinker G. D. H. Cole and one volume of collected pamphlets, originally published between 1917 and 1956. The works in this collection encompass three critical periods of Cole’s socialist thinking: the guild socialist decade from 1913-23; the post 1929 period when his political economy was dominated by the notion of socialist economic intervention and planning, and the post-war period when, like other socialist theorists, he sought to come to terms with the particular challenges posed by the legacy of the Attlee governments, and the emergence of an affluent society. A substantial introduction by Noel Thompson places the works in their social, political and historical context and illustrates their continued relevance.
Chapter 1 : New introduction & Early Pamphlets
Chapter 2 : Self-Government in Industry
Chapter 3 : The World of Labour
Chapter 4 : Guild Socialism Restated
Chapter 5 : The Life of William Cobbett
Chapter 6 : The Next Ten Years
Chapter 7 : Economic Tracts for the Times
Chapter 8 : Practical Economics or Studies in Planning
Chapter 9 : The Meaning of Marxism
Chapter 10 : Socialist Economics
Chapter 11 : Attempts at General Union
Chapter 12 : Pamphlets : Unemployment and Industrial Maintenance
Chapter 13 : The Principles of Socialism
Chapter 14 : The Bank of England Monetary Systems and Theory
Chapter 15 : How to Obtain Full Employment
Chapter 16 : Why Nationalize Steel?
Chapter 17 : The British Labour Movement
Chapter 18 : Weakness through Strength : The Economics of Rearmament
Chapter 19 : The Fabian Society
Chapter 20 : Is this Socialism?
Chapter 21 : What is Wrong with the Trade Unions?
