By J. Schulman
A cross-country comparability of contemporary Labour social gathering governments in New Zealand, Britain, and Australia, and an exploration of ways these international locations' labour routine spoke back to their events' neoliberal rules in energy.
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When powerful, highly placed officials in a party with a workingclass base have pledged ideological fealty to right-wing economic doctrines—the reforms were enacted ‘in the name of a revival of the values of classical liberalism and laissez-faire’122 —this means that there has been a distinct shift in which class the party is attempting to represent. Much as Tony Blair’s New Labour in Britain would later do, the NZLP government established close relationships with business figures. In 1985–86, it appointed businessmen to the boards of state-owned enterprises, the Bank of New Zealand and the Reserve Bank.
Many in the unions had come to oppose the conciliatory manner of Jones and were now firmly opposing the Labour government’s policies. There were disagreements over industrial matters as well. The unity of blue-collar, white-collar, private and public unions represented by the creation of the NZCTU proved to be more organizational and symbolic than truly solidaristic. Indeed, many unions remained ambivalent about strategic unionism and the compact, and some traditional blue-collar unions opted not to join the NZCTU.
28 Industrial policy and union–party relations The reforms of the first Labour government (1935–49) won the loyalty of the New Zealand working class. Furthermore, they established a ‘historic compromise’—the working class and its party would not use the government to overthrow capitalism, but to stabilize it. 29 It was the alliance between the Labour Party and the Federation of Labour union leaders that provided the basis of this compromise. Labour enacted compulsory unionism in 1935, thereby raising many previously weak unions, particularly in the white-collar and agricultural sectors, to great size.
