Tom Bramble, Rick Kuhn

Labor's Conflict

Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class

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Produktbeschreibung

Once widely regarded as the workers greatest hope for a better world, the ALP today would rather project itself as a responsible manager of Australian capitalism. Labor's Conflict provides an insightful account of the transformations in the Party's policies, performance and structures since its formation. Seasoned political analysts, Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn offer an incisive appraisal of the Party's successes and failures, betrayals and electoral triumphs in terms of its competing ties with bosses and workers. The early chapters outline diverse approaches to understanding the nature of the Party and then assess the ALP's evolution in response to major social upheavals and events, from the strikes of the 1890s, through two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the post-war boom. The records of the Whitlam, Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments are then dissected in detail. The compelling conclusion offers alternatives to the Australian Labor Party, for those interested in progressive change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780521138048
• ISBN-10: 0521138043
• Artikelnr.: 32468028

Autorenporträt

Tom Bramble has been a socialist activist since the 1970s in Britain and Australia. He is a founding member of Socialist Alternative and a member of its National Executive. He writes regularly for Red Flag and Marxist Left Review. One of his most recent books is "The Fight for Workers' Power: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the 20th Century" (with Mick Armstrong).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; 1. Labor's love lost; 2. In the beginning; 3. Between the wars; 4. Hot war, cold war, split; 5. Labor after seventy years; 6. The Whitlam era; 7. Economic rationalism under Hawke and Keating; 8. Labor in the wilderness; 9. The Rudd-Gillard Government; 10. The Labor Party today: what's left; Notes; Index.