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Labour: the New Zealand Labour Party 1916-2016 (Paperback)
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Labour: the New Zealand Labour Party 1916-2016 (Paperback)
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The Labour Party is New Zealand's oldest political party. On 7 July
2016 it celebrates a hundred years of commitment to democracy,
social justice and economic development-a commitment that has often
made for precarious balancing acts. First in government from
1935-1949, Labour set the terms of economic and social policy for
over 40 years only to then struggle to define itself during the
1950s and 60s. After single terms in government in the late 1950s
and early 1970s, Labour experienced the 1984 Lange government's
radical Rogernomics policies which threatened to destroy the party
even as the anti-nuclear policy was warmly applauded. Helen Clark's
nine-year reconciliation of social democracy and globalization
followed, proving across the century that Labour has consistently
represented a broad-based party of reform. Labour: The New Zealand
Labour Party 1916-2016 shows how Labour builds on a long tradition
of radical and democratic agitation, and how members and activists
from all walks of life fought for their their economic and social
visions. It shows how a party founded in a male-dominated trade
union movement grew-sometimes with difficulty-to embrace and
advocate for the aspirations of women, Maori, Pasifika peoples, and
rainbow communities. An essential read for all with an interest in
New Zealand's political history, this analysis of Labour's past
will go on to inform the future of social democratic politics.
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