Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Gewicht: 688 g
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Gewicht: 688 g
ISBN: 978-1-86287-493-0
Verlag: Federation Press
The suburb of Glebe in the city of Sydney is traditional, inner city, rusted-on Labor Party territory. Local Labor tells the story of the branches of the Australian Labor Party in the area over more than a century. It recounts the broad sweep of history at the small local level, the recurrent issues, the personal and political battles. It is an account of political activity at branch level such as has never before been attempted in Australia. The history begins with the Party's first election in Glebe in 1891 it was successful and ends with the suburbs incorporation into the City of Sydney municipality in 2003. Along the way, it covers the whole range of local politics: relations with the local community the politics of Council elections fighting State and Federal elections party machine politics and the temptations of corruption factional rivalry and branch stacking eg, throughout the Lang era of the 1920s and 1930s the local boss eg, for over 50 years, local medico Dr Foley the wider city politics eg Glebe's move into the City of Sydney in 1948 (by a State Labor government), its move to Leichhardt in 1968 (by a State Liberal government) and its move back to the City in 2003 (State Labor) modern local political struggles, eg between Labor and environmentalists, between left and right of the Labor Party, and between major party candidates and politically independent local activists the benefits of membership the key question in the 21st century: why belong to a party at all?
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Contents Introduction: A View from Below A False Start (1891) Glebe in the 1891 election Ambiguous Labor candidates Victory in Glebe An Undisciplined Party (1892-1900) A divided party Single Tax in Glebe and Annandale The split in Glebe Regrouping after defeat A Revival of Labor Branches (1901-10) Local government opportunities Revival in Glebe – the 1910 election Victory in 1910 Class and socialism in Glebe Achieving Autonomy (1910-20) Another Glebe split Recovering from the split Creating a Local Political Machine (1921-34) Labor leadership struggles in 1921-23 Winning control of Glebe Council Branch control over aldermen The Walsh Machine Langites swamp Glebe Power tends to corrupt The Early Depression in Glebe (1929-34) Timber strike of 1929 Confronting social problems Graft and corruption Competition from the left in Glebe Unseating Keegan Dr Foley of Glebe (1934-40) The Foley machine Confronting the inner group The Harold Park affair Other allegations of corruption The Nolan Report A Langite irritant to Labor Adjusting to a New World (1940-48) Reviving Glebe Labor Competition from the left Resisting communism The last days of Glebe Council Labor or Lang Glebe Labor in the City of Sydney (1948-68) A whiff of corruption The DLP split in Glebe Branch profiles after the split End of involvement in the City Council Battles for Control in Glebe and Leichhardt (1968-86) Challenge from the Glebe Society Attack from the left The end of the Glebe North Branch The politics of stacking From Factions to Fractions (1984-2001) Losing Leichhardt Council Branch decline Policy promotion Other branch activity The state of the local party Names on the street What Use are Branches? A golden age of Glebe Labor? Participation and representation Endnotes/ Finding Out [primary sources] / Select Bibliography/ Index
