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1. G. D. H. Cole: Early Pamphlets & Assessment (RLE Cole)

   Edited by Noel Thompson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This volume of extremely rare pamphlets spans over thirty years of prolific output by G D H Cole. It encompasses the challenges of full employment and the role re-armament in achieving that, nationalizing industries, the principles of socialism and the welfare state....

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
2. The World of Labour

   By G. Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   Cole saw the trade unions as being critical to progress, but to realise their role they needed to change and the issue of trade union structure therefore became fundamental. He considered in this volume that trade union structure was a central problem of the labour movement – he described British...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
3. Self-Government in Industry

   By G Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This book represents an important stage in the development of an indigenous theory. The argument is presented with the special qualities of cogency and perception which have given the author a lasting influence within the labour movement....

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Life of William Cobbett

   By G Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This volume is representative of the historical works of a particular period (1923-29) when there was a hiatus in the output of Cole the theoretician. It is an extraordinary contribution to labour history and is among the finest of his historical works. ...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
5. The Next Ten Years

   By G Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This volume was Cole's first major work of political economy in almost a decade and it effectively positioned him as a mainstream Fabian who sought to stabilize capitalism before progressing socialism by essentially statist means. Influenced by J A Hobson and Maynard Keynes the imperative for Cole...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
6. Practical Economics

   By G Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This volume compares the planning of economic conditions under the very different political systems of Soviet Russia, Fascist Germany and Italy and Democratic America, with some discussion of partial economic planning in Great Britain. It includes a broad survey of the successive phases of the Five...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
7. Economic Tracts for the Times

   By G. Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   Originally written as a series of pamphlets and at a time of high unemployment, this volume discusses free trade, monetary policy, wages and employment, economic theory and social legislation....

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
8. Guild Socialism Restated

   By G Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   Guild Socialism Restated is G D H Cole’s fullest and most systematic account of his vision of industrial and political reorganization. The introductory chapters of the volume develop the theme of democratic citizenship in relation to industrial society. Cole contends that neither capitalism nor...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
9. Attempts at General Union

   By G. Cole

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This volume traces the attempts made after the Napoleonic Wars to link up all the numerous local and sectional Trade Societies into a single comprehensive ‘General Trades Union’ – attempts which culminated in the short-lived Grand National Consolidated Trades Union formed under Robert Owen’s...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
10. Socialist Economics

    By G. Cole

    Series: Routledge Library Editions

    This volume sets forth as simply as possible the theoretical foundations which underlie the practical policies of democratic Socialism. This involves both a repudiation and a refutation of the assumptions of the older classical economists who believed in laissez-faire, and a careful differentiation...

    Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge