Department of Politics

Academic Staff - S Ludlam

Dr. Steve Ludlam, BA, PhD (Sheffield)

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 1665
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 1717
Room: G.58 Elmfield
Feedback & Consultation hours: Tuesday 1110 - 1200 and Wednesday 1110 - 1200

email : S.Ludlam@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

Steve Ludlam is Senior Lecturer in Politics. He did his first degree at Sheffield, as a mature student, and then a PhD at Sheffield on British trade unions and public spending cuts in the 1970s. After teaching history and politics in Sheffield and Preston, he joined the Department in 1993. He was founding convenor of the Political Studies Association's specialist Labour Movements Group. He is a member of the Cuba Research Forum, and The Society for Latin American Studies, and an honorary member of the Faculty of the Third Age, University of Havana. His main research interests is the politics of Cuba and left politics in Latin America.

Teaching

His principal teaching commitments are:

POL225 new Politics of Latin America

POL3021 Cuba in the Post-Bipolar Age

Current Research

His current research is on political change and the reform of labour relations in Cuba, and the development of Cuba´s University of the Third Age; and on left politics in Latin America.

Key Publications

Books

• Reclaiming ‘Our America’: Radical Social Democracy in Latin America (2009, Zed
  Books) ed. with G. Lievesley.
  
• Labour, the state, social movements and the challenge of neo-liberal globalisation(2007, Manchester University Press)ed. with A.J.Taylor,A.Gamble and S.Wood.
• Governing as New Labour (2004, Palgrave) ed. with M.J. Smith xii + 261pp
• Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour Politics and History (2003, Manchester University Press) ed. with J. Callaghan & S.J. Fielding x + 210 pp
• Special Edition on Politics and Employment Relations (2003, British Journal of Industrial Relations) ed. with S. Wood, E. Heery, & A.J.Taylor 209 pp
• New Labour in Government (2001, Palgrave) ed. with M.J. Smith xvi + 308 pp
• Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 1997: Studies in British Politics (1997, Frank Cass) ed. with D. Denver, J. Fisher, & C. Pattie xvi + 285 pp
• Contemporary British Conservatism (1996, Macmillan) ed. with M.J. Smith xiv +322 pp

Journal Articles

Recent journal articles include:

• ‘Cuba at 50: what about the workers?’ Bulletin of Latin American Research , Vol. 28 No. 4, 2009 pp. 542-557.
  ‘The political culture of terrorism in Cuban Miami’ International Journal of Cuban Studies Vol. 3,2009 pp. 1-11.
  
• 'The Political Representation of the Labour Interest in Britain' British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 41 No. 4, 2003, pp. 727-749 (with A.J. Taylor)
• 'Politics and Employment Relations', British Journal of Industrial Relations Vol. 41 No. 4, 2003, pp. 609-616 (with S. Wood, E. Heery, & A.J.Taylor)
• 'The Development of an Anglo-American Model of Trade Union and Political Party Relations' Labor Studies Journal Vol. 28 No. 2. 2003, pp. 45-66 (with D. Coates and M. Bodah)
• 'The Impact of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (2000) on Trade Union Campaigning' Representation Vol. 38 No. 4, 2002, pp. 294-304 (with A.J. Taylor & P. Allender)
• 'In-kind Election Donations to Labour by Affiliated Trade Unions: Revisiting the Neill Committee Evidence' Journal of Legislative Studies Vol. 8 No. 2, 2002 pp. 118-123 (with A.J. Taylor)
• 'Trajectories of solidarity: changing union-party linkages in the UK and the USA' British Journal of Politics and International Relations Vol. 4. No. 2, 2002 pp. 222-244 (with D. Coates and M. Bodah)
• 'New Labour: What's Published is What Counts', British Journal of Politics and International Relations Vol. 2 No. 2, 2000. pp. 264-276

Books Chapters

Recent book chapters include:

• ‘Cuban socialism: recovery and change’ in Reclaiming ‘Our America’: Radical Social Democracy in Latin America (2009, Zed Books) ed. with G. Lievesley.
• Democracy in Latin America (2009, Zed Books) ed. with G. Lievesley ‘Nuestra América, the spectre haunting Washington’ in Reclaiming ‘Our America’: Radical Social Democracy in Latin America (2009, Zed Books) ed. with G. Lievesley.
  
• ‘The Blinkered Eye of the Perfect Storm: the Case of the Cuban Five and the Political Culture of Terrorism in Miami, Florida’, in J. Schwartzkopf and A. Kirchhofer (eds.) (2009) Workings of the Anglosphere, (Wissenschaftliger Verlag, Trier)
• ‘New Labour, Arbeitsmarktpolitik & Arbeitsbeziehungen’ in Kastendiek, H. &
  Sturm, R. (eds.) Länderbericht Großbritannien (2006 Bonn: Bundeszentrale für
  Politische Bildung, and Leverkusen/ Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers)
  
• 'New Labour, 'Vested Interests' and the Union Link' in S. Ludlam & M.J Smith (eds) Governing as New Labour (2004, Palgrave), pp.70-88
• 'Second Term New Labour' in S. Ludlam & M.J Smith (eds) Governing as New Labour (2004, Palgrave), pp. 1-16
• 'The Trade Union Link and Social Democratic Renewal in the British Labour Party' in H. Henning (ed.) Joint Renewal: British and German Social Democracy (2004, Federal Trust)
• 'Too much pluralism or not enough socialism? Interpreting the Party-Unions Link' in J. Callaghan, S. Fielding & S. Ludlam (eds) (2003) Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour Politics and History (2003, Manchester University Press) pp. 150-166
• 'Introduction' in J. Callaghan, S. Fielding & S. Ludlam (eds.) (2003) Interpreting the Labour Party: Approaches to Labour Politics and History (2003, Manchester University Press) pp. 1-12
• 'Trade Unions and the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (2000) in the 2001 General Election: Tentative Third Parties and Trammelled Officers' in Bennie, L., Rallings, C., Tonge, J. and Webb, P. (eds) (2002) British Elections and Parties Review: the 2001 General Election (Frank Cass) (with A. J. Taylor, and P. Allender) pp. 156-171
• 'New Labour and the Unions: the End of the Contentious Alliance?' in S. Ludlam & M.J. Smith (eds) (2000) New Labour in Government (Macmillan) pp. 111-129
• 'The Making of New Labour' in S. Ludlam & M.J. Smith (eds) (2000) New Labour in Government (Macmillan) pp. 1-31
• 'Norms and Blocks: the Labour Party and the Trade Unions since 1964' in B. Brivati & R. Heffernan (eds.) (2000) The Labour Party: a Centenary History (Macmillan) pp. 200-245

PhD Supervision

His PhD supervision has included:

• Trade Union growth in Mexico, Canada and the United States
• Worker Participation in Spain and UK
• The Labour Right
• Swedish Social Democracy
• The Labour Left's Alternative Economic Strategy
• Socialisation Debates in the Labour Party
• The 1964-70 Labour Governments
• Railway Policy Networks
• The Europe of the Regions