Book contents
- Regimes of Inequality
- Regimes of Inequality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Explaining Resilient Inequalities in Health and Wealth
- 2 Theorizing Regimes of Inequality
- 3 Health Inequalities
- 4 New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
- 5 Inequality, Territory, Austerity
- 6 From Risk Factors to Social Determinants
- 7 In and Out of the Overton Window
- 8 Regimes of Inequality
- Appendix Content Analysis of Government and Commissioned Health Inequality Reports
- References
- Index
4 - New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2019
- Regimes of Inequality
- Regimes of Inequality
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 Explaining Resilient Inequalities in Health and Wealth
- 2 Theorizing Regimes of Inequality
- 3 Health Inequalities
- 4 New Labour, the Redistributive Taboo, and Reframing Inequality in England after the Black Report
- 5 Inequality, Territory, Austerity
- 6 From Risk Factors to Social Determinants
- 7 In and Out of the Overton Window
- 8 Regimes of Inequality
- Appendix Content Analysis of Government and Commissioned Health Inequality Reports
- References
- Index
Summary
In 2002, speaking at a school in east London, Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to “redistribute power, wealth, and opportunity.” This uncharacteristic – and perhaps unguarded, given the venue – remark was “one of the first times the prime minister has used the word ‘redistribute’ unprompted,” according to the Guardian reporter who covered the speech (The Guardian 2002). The surprised reporter went on to declare that redistribution was “previously a taboo expression in New Labour.”
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- Regimes of InequalityThe Political Economy of Health and Wealth, pp. 83 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020