| Main Title: |
Lang and socialism : a study in the great depression / Robert Cooksey. |
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| Author: |
Cooksey, Robert J. (Robert John), 1939-
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| Imprint: |
Australian National University Press, 1971. |
| Collation: |
xiii, 96 p. : ill., notes, bib., index, pbk ; 22 cm. |
| Summary: |
The Great Depression is a significant but neglegted period in Australian history. This book describes the formation within the New South Wales Labor Party of a mass-organised ginger group, known as the Socialisation Units, which tried to convert the Party to 'socialism in our time'. The group became so strong that is was in effect a party within the Party. At the 1931 Easter Confrence it succeeded in committing the Labor Partu to a positive policy of socialism. Although the decision was later revised, it remains unique in the history of the Australian Labor Parties. Throughout the period of the Socilisation Units, J.T. Lang presided over the New South Wales Labor Party as the charismatic leader and machine boss. We read of his Inner Group's effort to contain the Units through Party management, of the defeat of the Socialisation Units after a struggle for power within the Party, and the subsequent loss to the Labor Party of many young idealists who had been attracted by the Units. For those interested in the twentieth century this book will colour in a period so far only dimly sketched, and a political leader still seen as a hero or villain of the Great Depression. |
| Subject: |
Lang, J. T. (John Thomas) 'Jack', 1876-1975
Socialists and socialism
The Great Depression (1929)
Economic depressions
Economic conditions
Nineteen thirties 1930s
Australian Labor Party
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| ISBN: |
0708101240 |
| Notes: |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [90]-92.
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