Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- The Rise of the Modern Labour Technocrat': Response: Reply to Tom Bramble
- In
- Labour History
- Imprint
- vol. 79, 2000, pp. 185-188
- Description
The crux of the author's original article was the decline of a labour public in the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union as its intellectuals assumed a new role and exploited new openings 'in the upper reaches of government', becoming 'labour technocrats', while their intellectual work constrained the rank and file. Scalmer and Irving believe that Bramble's analysis does not deal with all the nuances of their argument",,,,"Historical Debate: Scalmer, Sean and Terry Irving. The Rise of the Modern Labour Technocrat.