Labor's conflict : big business, workers and the politics of class / Tom Bramble, Rick Kuhn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bramble, Thomas, author.

Kuhn, Rick, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian Labor Party--History.

Australian Labor Party.

Political parties--Australia--History.

Political parties.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Labor's love's lost?

In the beginning: Labor's first quarter century

Between the wars

Hot war, cold war, split

Labor after 70 years

The Whitlam era

Economic rationalism under Hawke and Keating

Labor in the wilderness

The Rudd-Gillard government

The labor party today: what's left.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-86207-5

1-107-21326-6

1-282-91630-0

9786612916304

0-511-85992-9

0-511-85905-8

0-511-86079-X

0-511-85818-3

0-511-86115-X

0-511-85731-4

OCLC:

693761320