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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.
In the late 1960s Australian unionism was on the flood tide:
growing in strength, industrially confident and capable of shaping
the overall political climate of the nation. Forty years on, union
membership and power is ebbing away despite community support for
trade unionism and the continuing need for strong unions. Even the
unprecedented mobilisation against WorkChoices, which defeated a
government and lost the prime minister his own seat, has done
little to turn the tide. With compelling rigour, Tom Bramble
explores the changing fortunes of what was once an entrenched
institution. Trade Unionism in Australia charts the impact on
unions of waves of economic restructuring, a succession of hostile
governments and a wholesale shift in employer attitudes, as well as
the failure of the unions' own efforts to boost membership and
consolidate power. Indeed, Bramble demonstrates how the tactics
employed by unions since the early 1980s may have paradoxically
contributed to their decline. Ultimately this timely book traces
union-led action from the workplace to the political sphere over a
period of significant change, and concludes by pointing to
strategies for a renewal and revival of Australian unions.
In the late 1960s Australian unionism was on the flood tide:
growing in strength, industrially confident and capable of shaping
the overall political climate of the nation. Forty years on, union
membership and power is ebbing away despite community support for
trade unionism and the continuing need for strong unions. Even the
unprecedented mobilisation against WorkChoices, which defeated a
government and lost the prime minister his own seat, has done
little to turn the tide. With compelling rigour, Tom Bramble
explores the changing fortunes of what was once an entrenched
institution. Trade Unionism in Australia charts the impact on
unions of waves of economic restructuring, a succession of hostile
governments and a wholesale shift in employer attitudes, as well as
the failure of the unions' own efforts to boost membership and
consolidate power. Indeed, Bramble demonstrates how the tactics
employed by unions since the early 1980s may have paradoxically
contributed to their decline.
Title first published in 2003. In recognition of the power of
organised labour, the ANC Government elected in 1994 granted South
Africa's unions unprecedented legal and constitutional rights.
Despite these gains, the country's unions have faced a fresh set of
challenges, many of them emanating from their political allies in
Government. From Parliament to the factory floor, South Africa's
unions are now confronted with threats as dangerous as those they
confronted when organising illegally in the heyday of apartheid.
The purpose of this book is to examine how South African unions
have responded and how well prepared they are to meet the
challenges that confront them in the new millennium.
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