ABSTRACT
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.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Volume 1|303 pages
EARLY PAMPHLETS AND ASSESSMENT
chapter |28 pages
An Introduction to the Selected Works of G.D.H. Cole
chapter |18 pages
Unemployment and Industrial Maintenance
chapter |15 pages
The Principles of Socialism
chapter |9 pages
The Bank of England
chapter |30 pages
Monetary Systems and Theories
chapter |28 pages
How to Obtain Full Employment
chapter |50 pages
Why Nationalise Steel?
chapter |22 pages
British Labour Movement
chapter |16 pages
Weakness Through Strength
chapter |20 pages
The Fabian Society
chapter |32 pages
Is This Socialism?
chapter |30 pages
What Is Wrong with the Trade Unions?
part Volume 2|340 pages
SELF-GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRY
chapter |25 pages
The Control of Industry During and After the War
chapter |45 pages
The Restoration of Trade Union Conditions
chapter |29 pages
The Nature of the State
chapter |24 pages
The Case for National Guilds
chapter |29 pages
The Re-Organisation of Trade Unionism
chapter |42 pages
The Abolition of the Wage-System
chapter |31 pages
State Ownership and Control
chapter |55 pages
Freedom in the Guild
chapter |22 pages
National Guilds and the Consumer
chapter |19 pages
Appendix A: The Genesis of Syndicalism in France
chapter |8 pages
Appendix B: Labour Policy After the War
part Volume 3|470 pages
THE WORLD OF LABOUR
chapter |29 pages
Means and Ends
chapter |28 pages
The Labour Unrest
chapter |43 pages
Labour in France
chapter |27 pages
Comments on the French Labour
chapter |38 pages
Labour in America
chapter |39 pages
Further Lessons from Abroad — The General Strike
chapter |54 pages
Trade Union Structure — Industrial Unionism and Amalgamation
chapter |26 pages
Trade Union Government — Centralisation and Local Autonomy
chapter |35 pages
Social Peace and Social War — Conciliation and Arbitration
chapter |24 pages
Labour's Red Herrings — The Function of Co-Operation
chapter |26 pages
The Control of Industry — Syndicalism and Collectivism
chapter |23 pages
The Future of Trade Unionism
chapter |20 pages
Economics and Politics
chapter |14 pages
Hopes and Fears
part Volume 4|225 pages
GUILD SOCIALISM RESTATED
chapter |18 pages
The Demand for Freedom
chapter |15 pages
The Basis of Democracy
chapter |21 pages
A Guild in Being
chapter |15 pages
The Guild System in Industry
chapter |18 pages
The Consumer
chapter |21 pages
The Civic Services
chapter |22 pages
The Structure of the Commune
chapter |22 pages
The Working of the Commune
chapter |13 pages
Guild Socialism in Agriculture
chapter |15 pages
Evolution and Revolution
chapter |19 pages
The Policy of Transition
chapter |9 pages
The International Outlook
part Volume 5|470 pages
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COBBETT
chapter |13 pages
The Times
chapter |14 pages
Boyhood and Youth
chapter |12 pages
Life in the Army
chapter |8 pages
The Soldier's Friend
chapter |21 pages
Peter Porcupine in America
chapter |10 pages
Entry into English Politics
chapter |12 pages
The "Pitt System"—The Passing of Anti-Jacobinism
chapter |15 pages
Life at Botley
chapter |25 pages
Cobbett Joins the Radicals
chapter |15 pages
The Change in Cobbett's Opinions — "Perish Commerce!"
chapter |14 pages
Prosecution and Sentence
chapter |21 pages
In Newgate — The Luddites
chapter |14 pages
The Fall of Napoleon — Religious Opinions—The Corn Laws
chapter |23 pages
The Fruits of Victory
chapter |19 pages
Two Years' Residence in America
chapter |18 pages
The Six Acts — Queen Caroline
chapter |15 pages
Factory Slavery — Cobbett and the Trade Unions
chapter |16 pages
Grammar and Husbandry
chapter |20 pages
Catholic Emancipation — The Preston Election
chapter |13 pages
Advice to Young Men
chapter |31 pages
Rural Rides
chapter |22 pages
The Reform Movement — the Labourers' Revolt
chapter |16 pages
The Reform Act
chapter |19 pages
The Reformed Parliament — the "trades Union"
chapter |13 pages
The Poor Law Struggle
chapter |16 pages
A Tour in Ireland — The End
part Volume 6|484 pages
THE NEXT TEN YEARS
chapter |21 pages
Politics, Old and New
chapter |26 pages
British Trade and the Future
chapter |20 pages
The Unemployed
chapter |20 pages
The Restoration of Industry
chapter |28 pages
The New Capitalism
chapter |14 pages
Rationalisation
chapter |28 pages
Socialisation
chapter |20 pages
Workers' Control
chapter |23 pages
Wages—Family Allowances—Population
chapter |23 pages
The Supply of Capital
chapter |23 pages
Banks and Credit
chapter |29 pages
Agriculture and The Land
chapter |16 pages
The Control of Trade and Prices
chapter |20 pages
The Empire — Foreign Affairs
chapter |29 pages
Local Government
chapter |24 pages
Education
chapter |24 pages
The Labour Budget — Debt and Taxation
chapter |25 pages
The Labour Budget — Expenditure
chapter |9 pages
The Next Labour Government
chapter |14 pages
Conclusions
chapter |16 pages
Appendices
part Volume 7|339 pages
ECONOMIC TRACTS FOR THE TIMES
part I|180 pages
The Economic Crisis
chapter |8 pages
A Short Tract for the Times
chapter |55 pages
The Crisis
chapter |23 pages
Free Trade, Tariffs, and the Alternative
chapter |17 pages
Public Opinion and Monetary Policy
chapter |15 pages
Why and How We Must Socialise the Banks
chapter |30 pages
The World Economic Outlook from The Standpoint of Labour
chapter |30 pages
Wages and Employment
part II|86 pages
Economics in Theory and Practice
chapter |29 pages
Towards a New Economic Theory
chapter |19 pages
The Use and Abuse of Economic Terms
chapter |27 pages
The Nature of Profits
chapter |9 pages
The Abolition of the Wage System
part III|62 pages
Socialisation
chapter |16 pages
Public and Semi-Public Concerns
chapter |22 pages
The Essentials of Socialisation
chapter |14 pages
The Method of Social Legislation
chapter |8 pages
Why I Am a Socialist
part Volume 8|259 pages
PRACTICAL ECONOMICS
chapter |34 pages
The Essentials of Planning
chapter |50 pages
Socialist Planning — The U.S.S.R
chapter |46 pages
Fascist 'Planning' — Germany and Italy
chapter |81 pages
American 'Planning' — The New Deal
chapter |31 pages
Capitalist 'Planning' in Great Britain
chapter |8 pages
Conclusion
part Volume 9|305 pages
PRACTICAL ECONOMICS
chapter |40 pages
The Foundations of Marxism
chapter |32 pages
The Materialist Conception of History
chapter |25 pages
The Growth and Decline of Capitalism
chapter |23 pages
Economic Classes
chapter |22 pages
The New Middle Classes and the Rise of Fascism
chapter |30 pages
The Proletariat
chapter |30 pages
Marxism and the State
chapter |33 pages
The Theory of Value
chapter |28 pages
The Theory of Value (continued)
chapter |22 pages
The Dialectic — Conclusion
part Volume 10|161 pages
SOCIALIST ECONOMICS
chapter |30 pages
What Are Socialist Economics?
chapter |16 pages
The Socialists and the Keynesians
chapter |24 pages
The Postulates of Socialist Economics
chapter |26 pages
Planning, Employment and Production
chapter |16 pages
Economic Democracy
chapter |20 pages
International Economics
chapter |9 pages
Socialist Economic Values
part Volume 11|221 pages
ATTEMPTS AT GENERAL UNION