{"product_id":"9781921870934","title":"Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future","description":"With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith wit and insight, Latham 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 and poverty. Latham examines the rise of a destructive and reactionary far-right under the wing of Tony Abbott. He also makes the case that climate change is the ultimate challenge – and even opportunity – for a centre-left party.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot Dead Yet\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential contribution to political debate, which addresses the question: how can Labor reinvent itself and speak to a changed Australia?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137254211824,"sku":"9781921870934","price":17.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921870934_p0.jpg?v=1763631860","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921870934","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}