Left Luggage: From Marx to Wilson

by C. Northcote Parkinson

Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Cloth. First Edition.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1967

About the author

Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a naval historian and author of some sixty books. He was educated at Cambridge, and went on to teach in Malaya, and in the United States at Harvard and in Illinois.

He was an important scholar in the field of public administration.

His most famous work is Parkinson’s Law, or The Pursuit of Progress.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yep, this is the Parkinson who came up with Parkinson's law (which is based on what actually is a revelatory essay Parkinson published in the Economist back in the 1950s, http://www.economist.com/node/14116121, very much worth your time). Parkinson was an old-school Tory, and in this book he tells an irreverent, often-sarcastic history of Labour and related political movements in 20th-century England. Many of the controversies he recounts were no doubt momentous to those involved in them, but they often meant nothing to this American reader. Nonetheless, he's often a wonderful stylist, with a sometime stunning ability to turn a phrase, and seeing him at work was my chief reason for reading this particular book.

[Manish · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book clearly depicts how the economies of the world have taken their shape.Theories from Marx to Herbert Spencer gives a picture of the situation in England and world during 18th and 19th century.Rise of Labour party to their decline.