Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- 7 The Australian Labor Party
- 8 Social Democracy in Argentina
- 9 The Partido dos Trabalhadores in Brazil
- 10 A Persistent Whisper: The Social Democratic Idea in US History
- 11 Social Democracy in Japan
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
7 - The Australian Labor Party
from Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- The Cambridge History of Socialism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Transforming State Power
- Social Democratic Routes in Europe
- Social Democratic Routes in Australia, the Americas, and Asia
- 7 The Australian Labor Party
- 8 Social Democracy in Argentina
- 9 The Partido dos Trabalhadores in Brazil
- 10 A Persistent Whisper: The Social Democratic Idea in US History
- 11 Social Democracy in Japan
- Worldwide Connections
- Southern Trajectories
- Left Socialisms
- Part II Transversal Perspectives
- Index
- References
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 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022