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Article: Why is there No Labor Party in the United States?(Book review)
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Why is there No Labor Party in the United States? By Robin Archer (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. xvii + 310, A$54.95.
With the 2008 American Presidential contest between Democrats and Republicans in full-swing, Robin Archer's comparative political history is timely. He acutely demonstrates what the American two-party system lacks: a labor party. Archer's key concern is to ask why the United States is the only advanced capitalist country without an electorally viable Labor Party? For Archer this is no merely academic concern. As he reminds us, wherever a Labor Party emerged as a major force, a robust welfare state took shape. ...