Labor Pains - Volume 1
Will be published approx. on 8. January 2007
Book
Hardback
536 pages
978-1-86287-627-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the 1890s the trade union movement in New South Wales began a serious attempt to create something quite new as what we now recognise as a modern political party. Labor Pains is the documentary story of the early years of the Australian Labor Party, a developing and detailed narrative told from contemporary press reports. The debate on the party's shape and future direction is uninhibited as leaders argue diverse points of view. Internal democracy ensures a remarkably consensual resolution of issues. The great political issues resonate a century later: racial stereotyping and immigration policy; free trade and protection; Australia's role in imperial wars. Many of the debating topics have a similar, familiar, modern ring: branch stacking; rivalry between branch members and trade union delegates; tension between members of parliament and the extra-parliamentary party; clashes between idealism and political expediency. Labor Pains climaxes in 1905 when the Australian Labor Party becomes the main opposition party in the New South Wales Parliament.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Annandale, NSW
Australia
Target group
College/higher education
Weight
1176 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86287-627-9 (9781862876279)
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Content
Contents 1) The Birth of a Modern Political Party 2) Labor Electoral - League Platform and Rules 3) Labor Electoral League of New South Wales - First Annual Conference, 26-30 January 1892 4) Labor Electoral League of New South Wales - Second Annual Conference, 27-28 January 1893 5) Labor Electoral League of New South Wales Special Conference, 9 November 1893 6) Labor Electoral League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 10-15 March 1894 7) Labor Electoral League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 25-29 January 1895 8) Political Labor League of New South Wales Special LEL Conference and Inaugural PLL Convention, Sydney, 24-25 May 1895 9) Political Labour League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 25-29 January 1896 10) Political and Labor League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 25 â?"27 January 1897 11) The Political Labor League of NSW Annual Conference, Newcastle, 26-27 January 1898 12) Political Labor League of New South Wales Annual Conference, Bulli/Woonona, 31 March 1899 13) Political Labor League of NSW Special Conference, Sydney, 28-29 July 1899 14) Federal Labor Party Inaugural Interstate Conference Sydney, 24-25 January 1900 15) Political Labor League Sydney, Annual Conference, 26-27 January 1900 16) Political Labor League Annual Conference 26 January â?" 1 February 1901 17) Political Labor League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 27 January-4 February 1902 18) Political Labor League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 26 January-4 February 1903 19) Political Labor League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 26 January-3 February 1904 20) Political Labor League of New South Wales Annual Conference, 30 January-6 February 1905