Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd
Nick Beams

Industrial relations and the trade unions under Labor: from Whitlam to Rudd

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This pamphlet was first published as a series of four articles on the World Socialist Website by Nick Beams.

Beams was at the time the National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party and also the lead senatorial candidate in New South Wales for the party in the federal election of that year.

Beams gives a historical overview of the development of the Australian Labor Party, going through the period in the late 1960s when Whitlam came to the leadership, the Canberra Coup of 1975, the Hawke and Keating governments of the 1980s and 1990s, and the 2007 election where Kevin Rudd led the Labor party to victory.

Pages: 21

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This pamphlet was first published as a series of four articles on the World Socialist Website by Nick Beams.

Beams was at the time the National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party and also the lead senatorial candidate in New South Wales for the party in the federal election of that year.

Beams gives a historical overview of the development of the Australian Labor Party, going through the period in the late 1960s when Whitlam came to the leadership, the Canberra Coup of 1975, the Hawke and Keating governments of the 1980s and 1990s, and the 2007 election where Kevin Rudd led the Labor party to victory.

He traces the threads leading from the Whitlam era through to 2007 and  the collaboration between the trade union apparatus and the Labor party to enforce the assault on the living conditions of the Australian working class as part of the global restructuring of world capitalism.

Pages: 21

Weight 70 g
Dimensions 270 × 200 mm
Publisher

Nick Beams is a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site. He was a founding member of the SEP’s predecessor, the Socialist Labour League (SLL), in 1972. Beams is a leading authority on Marxist political economy, particularly the historical development of world economy and the contemporary significance of globalized production. He has lectured in the United States, Europe, the former USSR, Asia, and Australia. He has also written extensively on Australian and 20th century European history. Recent major lectures of his include, “The Crash of 2008 and its Revolutionary Implications”, “Internationalism and the Struggle for Socialism”, and “World War Two: Lessons and Warnings”.
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