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• Title: The Ties That Unwind? Social Democratic Parties and Unions in Australia and Britain (Essay)
• Author : Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 338 KB

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A close relationship with trade unions is among 'the characteristic features of social democratic parties'. (1) Focusing on the experience of Australia and Britain, this article argues that social democratic parties, as a result of fostering closer ties with capital and implementing more pro-business policies in recent decades, have become more distant from unions and implemented policies deleterious to interests of organised labour. While unions remain important to the parties organisationally, the distance politically between the two has widened to the point where unions are expected to lobby 'their' government just like any other interest group in a so-called 'pluralist' society. Party leaders do not conceive of themselves as part of a wider 'labour movement'--representing the interests of labour is not on their agenda. Rifts have developed between the wings before, but a degree of permanency about the situation has now set in. Moreover, there is little prospect of a return to a more traditional social democratic policy model that would satisfy union policy preferences but also imply a greater inclusion of organised labour in party leaders' considerations. The article suggests that central to this process has been the shift to a more pro-business policy approach, which in turn was based on the need to revive rates of business accumulation and profitability when the post-war boom ended abruptly in 1974. The transition to a neo-liberal policy framework--which includes, crucially, labour market deregulation--was always going to have a negative impact on unions, which were effectively a speed-bump on the road to neo-liberalism. It is this commitment to a pro-business, anti-labour policy framework that stands in the way of detente.

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