Labourism: A Political Genealogy

Irving, Terry

doi:10.2307/27509234

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“…Second, there is overlap between these three broad traditions. However, as we set out here, it is the 'labourist' tradition and its underpinning values that links most closely with our cases (Beilharz, 1985;Davis, 2004;Irving, 1994;Schulman, 2015).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 76%

‘Thin labourism’: Ideological and policy comparisons between the Australian, British, and New Zealand labour parties

Manwaring

Duncan

Lees

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Centre–left political parties are undergoing an identity crisis. This article is a comparative analysis of how the three sister labour parties in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are refurbishing their agendas. We integrate Barrientos and Powell’s framework, with Freeden’s concept of ideological morphology, to systematically map the three parties across three main domains: their discourse and values, their political economy, and their social policy agendas. We then apply four different analytical frames to better understand the ideological and policy trajectories of our cases. These frames comprise ‘values, not ideology’, ‘quietism’, ‘third way’, and ‘thin labourism’. We argue that the frame of ‘thin labourism’ best captures the recent developments of these modern labour parties. In sum, the parties are still rooted in a recognisable centre–left tradition, but they operating from a narrower base of core values.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 76%

‘Thin labourism’: Ideological and policy comparisons between the Australian, British, and New Zealand labour parties

Manwaring

Duncan

Lees

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…During the 1980s and early '90s Hawke-Keating Labor governments this somewhat inevitably led scholars into a deadend debate over what labourism essentially "is" or "isn't" or should ideally be, largely centred around allegations of a "betrayal" of Labor tradition linked to the perennial question of whether Labor has been a socialist party. 64 Carol Johnson (The Labor Legacy), a proponent of the so-called "continuity" thesis, provided the most satisfying historical treatment of labourism. 65 By analysing the political rhetoric of successive Labor governments, in conjunction with their policy prescriptions, she demonstrated how labourism took as its fundamental creed the discourse and practice of "social harmony".…”

Section: Australian Political History and The "Turn"mentioning

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“Never Hitherto Seen Outside of a Zoo or a Menagerie”: The Language of Australian Politics

Dyrenfurth

2010

Aus J of Politics History

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Since the early 1980s, "linguistic" and "cultural" influences have shaped the study of history and the broader social sciences worldwide. In Australia these influences have developed more slowly than in comparable countries such as Great Britain or the United States. Yet the colourful language and "culture wars" of Australian politics have long been key ingredients of political history's appeal in and outside of the academy. Many practitioners perceive that the so-called "turns" constitute a threat to the study of political history. This article contends that, on the contrary, they have enlivened historiographical concerns.

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“…In the case of the ALP -while accepted and used by some scholars but not others -the meaning and scope of the term has been the subject of some dispute. 19 In one comparison of trends in both parties, however, it refers to the belief that workers are deprived of the wealth they create in the production process and therefore require state intervention to redistribute that wealth. 20 Similarly, it has been argued that labourism is distinctive from the Right and the Revolutionary (socialist) Left.…”

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The Ties that Unwind? Social Democratic Parties and Unions in Australia and Britain

Lavelle

2010

Labour History

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Labourism: A Political Genealogy

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

‘Thin labourism’: Ideological and policy comparisons between the Australian, British, and New Zealand labour parties

‘Thin labourism’: Ideological and policy comparisons between the Australian, British, and New Zealand labour parties

“Never Hitherto Seen Outside of a Zoo or a Menagerie”: The Language of Australian Politics

The Ties that Unwind? Social Democratic Parties and Unions in Australia and Britain

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