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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The Second Intercolonial Trades Union Congress
Author: The Second Intercolonial Trades' Union Congress
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Category : Trade and professional associations
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Second Intercolonial Trades Union Congress
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Category : Intercolonial Trades Union Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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First Intercolonial Trades' Union Congress
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Category : Trade and professional associations
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Official Report of the Fourth Intercolonial Trades Union Congress
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Category : Trade and professional associations
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Official Report of the Fifth Intercolonial Trades Union Congress, Held in Brisbane on the 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th March, 1888
Author: Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?
Author: Robin ArcherPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400837545
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why there is no American labor party--an explanation that suggests that much of the conventional wisdom about "American exceptionalism" is untenable. Conventional explanations rely on comparison with Europe. Archer challenges these explanations by comparing the United States with its most similar New World counterpart--Australia. This comparison is particularly revealing, not only because the United States and Australia share many fundamental historical, political, and social characteristics, but also because Australian unions established a labor party in the late nineteenth century, just when American unions, against a common backdrop of industrial defeat and depression, came closest to doing something similar. Archer examines each of the factors that could help explain the American outcome, and his systematic comparison yields unexpected conclusions. He argues that prosperity, democracy, liberalism, and racial hostility often promoted the very changes they are said to have obstructed. And he shows that it was not these characteristics that left the United States without a labor party, but, rather, the powerful impact of repression, religion, and political sectarianism.
A History of Trade Unionism in Australia
Author: James Thomas SutcliffePublisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Labour & Industry
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Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Neither Power Nor Glory
Author: Paul StrangioPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522861822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
When Frank Hardy published Power Without Glory, his notorious novel about corruption and venality in the Victorian Labor Party, it quickly came to be seen as a true account of the party. Until now, there has been no authoritative chronicle of the struggles of political Labor in Victoria, from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century through to the calamitous split of the 1950s. By conventional measures these were fallow years. Ensnared by the colony's powerful liberal protectionist tradition in the late nineteenth century, Victorian Labor then found itself hindered by a grossly unfair electoral system and the lack of a constituency outside Melbourne's industrial suburbs. But exile from government also meant that the party developed its own distinctive traditions and culture. It was a unique and intriguing species among the state Labor parties. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Neither Power Nor Glory fills an important gap in Australian political history and our understanding of the Labor Party. It is also a timely antidote to nostalgia about Labor's past. In Victoria at least, that past was anything but golden.