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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 12. 1966.

Key Labour policy

Key Labour policy

The key policy of State "socialism" for Labour was that of industrialisation through import selection of raw material for the manfacturing sector, and therefore, it was assumed, not only create full employment, but develop an alternative to New Zealand's incipient low-wage pastoral economy. This industrialisation model was later used to solve the recurrent balance of payments crisis which have plagued us from the end of the Second World War. It is now commonly accepted, both by radical and conservative economists, that this policy has done little more than perpetuate what it was supposed to alleviate—our total dependence upon our primary [unclear: produ] for our overseas income.

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