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Does Repression Help to Create Labor Parties? The Effect of Police and Military Intervention on Unions in the United States and Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

Robin Archer
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Extract

There are a number of theories which argue that repression can help to explain why no labor party was established in the United States. These theories fall into two groups. In one group are versions of the soft repression thesis. In the other are versions of the hard repression thesis. These two theses contradict each other in basic respects.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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