{"product_id":"9781863956215","title":"Not Dead Yet: What Future for Labor?","description":"After the election, it will be time for a reckoning. Where to now for the Labor Party? \u003cp\u003eThis new edition of the acclaimed essay \u003ci\u003eNot Dead Yet\u003c\/i\u003e is significantly expanded by Mark Latham to take into account the election result. It also includes substantial contributions from several key progressive thinkers on Labor's future direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLatham astutely reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor's traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double-storey affluence. Families once resigned to a lifetime of blue-collar work now expect their children to be well-educated professionals and entrepreneurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLatham explains how Labor has always succeeded as a grassroots party, and argues for reforms to clear out the apparatchiks and dead wood. Then there are the key policy challenges: what to do about the Keating economic legacy, education, climate change and poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely symposium on Labor's future also features Jim Chalmers, Andrew Leigh, Guy Rundle, Nicholas Reece and others, setting out bold ideas for reform and renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in the wake of the election, \u003ci\u003eNot Dead Yet\u003c\/i\u003e will be an essential contribution to political debate, which addresses the question: how can Labor reinvent itself and speak to a changed Australia?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The grand old party of working-class participation has become a virtual party. In no other part of society ... could an organisation function this way and expect to survive. This is the core delusion of 21st-century democracy, that political parties can fragment and hollow out, yet still win the confidence of the people.\" -Mark Latham, \u003ci\u003eNot Dead Yet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064531108080,"sku":"9781863956215","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781863956215_p0.jpg?v=1763601212","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781863956215","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}