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an [[Institute of Ideas]] event, <ref>[http://www.instituteofideas.com/transcripts/education2004.pdf IoI Education Conference], Institute of Ideas website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref>
 
an [[Institute of Ideas]] event, <ref>[http://www.instituteofideas.com/transcripts/education2004.pdf IoI Education Conference], Institute of Ideas website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref>
 
the Manchester and Leeds [[Salons]]  <ref>[http://www.manchestersalon.org.uk/speakers.html Speakers], Manchester Salon website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> <ref>"[http://www.birminghamsalon.org/previous.html Previous events]", Birmingham Salon website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> and for [[WORLDwrite]]. <ref>"[http://www.worldwrite.org.uk/londonbehindthescenes/trainerbios.html Trainer Bios]", WORLDwrite website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> He has written for [[Culture Wars]], [[Channel Cyberia]] <ref>[http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/research/profiles/profile.php?id=83 Young Persons Guide to History], University of Oxford website, accessed 28 November 2010</ref> and [[Spiked]], <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2262/ Citius, altius, fortius]", Spiked website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> co-wrote a book with [[Dennis Hayes]] <ref>"[http://www.thefreesociety.org/Articles/Features/the-debate-deficit-how-the-2010-election-has-failed-the-electorate The Debate Deficit]", Free Society website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> and contributed to a book for [[Audacity]]. <ref>"[http://www.audacity.org/Sustaining%20Architecture%20in%20the%20Anti-Machine%20Age%20contents.htm Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age]", Audacity website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref>. He was one of the first fifty signatories to the statement by the [[Academics for Academic Freedom]]. <ref>[http://afaf.web.officelive.com/first100.aspx Signatories 1-100 About Us], AFAF website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref>
 
the Manchester and Leeds [[Salons]]  <ref>[http://www.manchestersalon.org.uk/speakers.html Speakers], Manchester Salon website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> <ref>"[http://www.birminghamsalon.org/previous.html Previous events]", Birmingham Salon website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> and for [[WORLDwrite]]. <ref>"[http://www.worldwrite.org.uk/londonbehindthescenes/trainerbios.html Trainer Bios]", WORLDwrite website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> He has written for [[Culture Wars]], [[Channel Cyberia]] <ref>[http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/research/profiles/profile.php?id=83 Young Persons Guide to History], University of Oxford website, accessed 28 November 2010</ref> and [[Spiked]], <ref>"[http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/2262/ Citius, altius, fortius]", Spiked website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> co-wrote a book with [[Dennis Hayes]] <ref>"[http://www.thefreesociety.org/Articles/Features/the-debate-deficit-how-the-2010-election-has-failed-the-electorate The Debate Deficit]", Free Society website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref> and contributed to a book for [[Audacity]]. <ref>"[http://www.audacity.org/Sustaining%20Architecture%20in%20the%20Anti-Machine%20Age%20contents.htm Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age]", Audacity website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref>. He was one of the first fifty signatories to the statement by the [[Academics for Academic Freedom]]. <ref>[http://afaf.web.officelive.com/first100.aspx Signatories 1-100 About Us], AFAF website, accessed 4 November 2010</ref>
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==Research and writing==
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In a study reportedly conducted in 1992 Hudson and co-author [[Dennis Hayes]] studies the alleged effect of Thatcherism on the working class by focussing on the allegedly key area of Basildon:
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:Remember Basildon man? Or his close neighbour, Essex man? Back in the late eighties and early nineties, these stereotypical figures were invoked whenever politicians or editorial writers wanted a shorthand way of representing the new face of the British working class. These shell-suited, vulgar, 'loadsamoney' characters were said to have forsaken their traditional allegiance to the cloth cap Labour party and to have found a new home in a Conservative party only too happy to champion individuality and self-betterment. They were hardly an admired cross-section of the population, but the notion that they were a new political entity was a powerful impetus to the creation of New Labour and the 'third way'. But sociologists Dennis Hayes and Alan Hudson were able to raise serious doubts about Basildon man's reality. In a 1992 survey, the year Basildon re -elected its Conservative MP, they found little of the brash aggressive materialism they had been led to expect.<ref name="Taylor">Laurie Taylor 'Off cuts' The Guardian (London) May 24, 2000 Guardian Society Pages; Pg. 9</ref>
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Hayes and Hudson then produced a second study with data collected in 1997.  the study was published as a research report and by the New Labour think tank [[Demos]]:
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Hayes and Hudson were sufficiently fascinated by the working class attitudes they unearthed to undertake a second, more extensive survey of the town in 1997. In their new book based on this work, ''The Mood of the Nation: Basildon Man Revisited'' (Demos), they provide further evidence for their original argument that Basildon Thatcherism was only skin deep.<ref name="Taylor">
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==Publications==
 
==Publications==

Revision as of 09:08, 28 February 2011

LM network resources

Alan Hudson (Date of Birth: 04/01/1951) is an academic and is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. He was a director of the RCP publications company Junius Publications from before 1992 until it was wound up in 2000[1] and wrote an introduction for a book published by Junius for Living Marxism in 1995.[2] He has spoken at the Battle of Ideas, [3] an Institute of Ideas event, [4] the Manchester and Leeds Salons [5] [6] and for WORLDwrite. [7] He has written for Culture Wars, Channel Cyberia [8] and Spiked, [9] co-wrote a book with Dennis Hayes [10] and contributed to a book for Audacity. [11]. He was one of the first fifty signatories to the statement by the Academics for Academic Freedom. [12]

Research and writing

In a study reportedly conducted in 1992 Hudson and co-author Dennis Hayes studies the alleged effect of Thatcherism on the working class by focussing on the allegedly key area of Basildon:

Remember Basildon man? Or his close neighbour, Essex man? Back in the late eighties and early nineties, these stereotypical figures were invoked whenever politicians or editorial writers wanted a shorthand way of representing the new face of the British working class. These shell-suited, vulgar, 'loadsamoney' characters were said to have forsaken their traditional allegiance to the cloth cap Labour party and to have found a new home in a Conservative party only too happy to champion individuality and self-betterment. They were hardly an admired cross-section of the population, but the notion that they were a new political entity was a powerful impetus to the creation of New Labour and the 'third way'. But sociologists Dennis Hayes and Alan Hudson were able to raise serious doubts about Basildon man's reality. In a 1992 survey, the year Basildon re -elected its Conservative MP, they found little of the brash aggressive materialism they had been led to expect.[13]

Hayes and Hudson then produced a second study with data collected in 1997. the study was published as a research report and by the New Labour think tank Demos:

Hayes and Hudson were sufficiently fascinated by the working class attitudes they unearthed to undertake a second, more extensive survey of the town in 1997. In their new book based on this work, The Mood of the Nation: Basildon Man Revisited (Demos), they provide further evidence for their original argument that Basildon Thatcherism was only skin deep.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

Notes

  1. ↑ Source: Companies House, Accessed 8 January 2011
  2. ↑ Frederick Engels Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, with an introduction by Alan Hudson London: Junius, 1995. . P/b, 8.5" x 5.", 73pp. 'Living Marxism Originals'.
  3. ↑ "Speaker details", Battle of Ideas website, accessed 4 November 2010
  4. ↑ IoI Education Conference, Institute of Ideas website, accessed 4 November 2010
  5. ↑ Speakers, Manchester Salon website, accessed 4 November 2010
  6. ↑ "Previous events", Birmingham Salon website, accessed 4 November 2010
  7. ↑ "Trainer Bios", WORLDwrite website, accessed 4 November 2010
  8. ↑ Young Persons Guide to History, University of Oxford website, accessed 28 November 2010
  9. ↑ "Citius, altius, fortius", Spiked website, accessed 4 November 2010
  10. ↑ "The Debate Deficit", Free Society website, accessed 4 November 2010
  11. ↑ "Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age", Audacity website, accessed 4 November 2010
  12. ↑ Signatories 1-100 About Us, AFAF website, accessed 4 November 2010
  13. ↑ Laurie Taylor 'Off cuts' The Guardian (London) May 24, 2000 Guardian Society Pages; Pg. 9
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