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7 - The Australian Labor Party

from Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Frank Bongiorno  and
Sean Scalmer
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

Australia is among the few places in the world with a Labor Party.1 Such parties belong to a family of parties committed to ‘socialism’ and ‘social democracy’ that mainly emerged in Europe from the 1860s. Labour parties may be distinguished from other ‘socialist’ and ‘social democratic’ parties in two respects. They are founded by unions; they also maintain a place for them within their structure, including their policymaking and candidate selection. Australia’s Labor Party was precocious, developing just after the formation of those in Scandinavia in the 1880s (for the social democratic parties of Sweden and Norway were also labour parties in this sense), and before that of Britain (1900).2

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 172 - 193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Burgmann, Verity, ‘In Our Time’: Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885–1905 (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1985).Google Scholar
Faulkner, John, and Macintyre, Stuart (eds.), True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party (Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2001).Google Scholar
Fitzgerald, Ross, and Thornton, Harold, Labor in Queensland: From the 1880s to 1988 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1989).Google Scholar
Love, Peter, Labour and the Money Power: Australian Labour Populism 1890–1950 (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1984).Google Scholar
Macintyre, Stuart, The Labour Experiment (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1989).Google Scholar
McMullin, Ross, The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party, 1891–1991 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Markey, Raymond, The Making of the Labor Party in New South Wales 1880–1900 (Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, 1988).Google Scholar
Murphy, D. J. (ed.), Labor in Politics: The State Labor Parties in Australia, 1880–1920 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1975).Google Scholar
Nairn, Bede, Civilising Capitalism: The Labor Movement in New South Wales, 1870–1900 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1973).Google Scholar
Strangio, Paul, Neither Power nor Glory: 100 Years of Political Labor in Victoria, 1856–1956 (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2012).Google Scholar

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