How Labour Built Neoliberalism : Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project.

How Labour Built Neoliberalism : Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project.

Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism? And, more controversially, were the trade unions only victims of neoliberal change, or did they play a more contradictory role? In How Labour Built Ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Humphrys, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2018.
Series:Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Australian Labor Party.
Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Australia-Economic conditions-1945-.
Labor movement-Australia.
Neoliberalism-Australia.
Australia-Politics and government-1945-.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movementand the Neoliberal Project; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1 The ALP & ACTU Accord; 2 The Social Contract's Gala Dinner; 3 Neoliberalism's Corporatist Origins; 4 A Hegemonic Political Project; 5 Corporatist 'involucro'; 6 A Note on Method; 7 Structure of the Book; 2 Theorising the State-Civil Society Relationship; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Some Preliminary Comments; 2 Marx's Critique of Hegel; 3 From Critique of Politics to Critique of Political Economy.
  • 4 From Marx to Gramsci4.1 Lo stato integrale; 5 Gramsci contra Marx? The Limits of Integration; 6 Conclusion; 3 Corporatism in Australia; 1 Introduction; 2 Understanding Corporatism; 3 Panitch's Approach; 4 Corporatism and the Accord; 5 The Context of Arbitration; 6 Conclusion; 4 Destabilising the Dominant Narrative; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Conceptual Diversity; 2 The Dominant Narrative; 2.1 Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism; 2.2 Klein: The Shock Doctrine; 2.3 Peck, Theodore, Tickell and Brenner: 'Neoliberalisation'; 2.4 Destabilising the Dominant Narrative.
  • 3 A Class Approach to Neoliberalism3.1 Harvey: 'The Restoration of Class Power'; 3.2 Davidson: 'An Entirely New Political Regime'; 3.3 A Hegemonic Political Project; 4 Conclusion; 5 Periodising Neoliberalism; 1 Introduction; 2 Periodising Neoliberalism in Australia; 3 Proto-neoliberal stage: 1973-1983; 3.1 The Economic Crisis; 3.2 The Whitlam Government; 3.3 The Fraser Government; 4 Vanguard Neoliberal Stage: 1983-1993; 4.1 The Impasse of the 1970s; 4.2 Developing the Accord; 5 Piecemeal Neoliberalisation Stage: 1993-2008; 5.1 Howard's Piecemeal Neoliberalism; 6 Crisis stage: 2008 Onwards.
  • 7 Conclusion6 The Disorganisation of Labour; 1 Introduction; 2 The Accord Agreement; 3 Wages and the Accord; 3.1 The First Accord (1983); 3.2 Accord Mark II (1985-1987); 3.3 Accord Mark III (1986-1987); 3.4 Accord Mark IV (1988-1989), V (1989-1990) & VI; 3.5 Accord Mark VII (1993) & VIII (Draft Only); 4 Wage Suppression; 4.1 Labour Disorganisation; 5 Conclusion; 7 An Integral State; 1 Introduction; 2 Accord Divergences; 2.1 The National Economic Summit and Communiqué; 2.2 Prices; 2.3 'Big Bang' and Other Neoliberal Reforms; 2.4 Trade Liberalisation; 3 Privatisation.
  • 4 Social Wage and Contested Understandings4.1 Medicare; 4.2 Superannuation; 4.3 Worth the Cost?; 5 The Concord of Neoliberalism and the Accord; 5.1 A Brace against Neoliberalism?; 5.2 Theorising the Corporatism-neoliberalism Connection; 5.3 An 'Informal Accord'?; 5.4 The Accord as Involucro; 6 Conclusion; 8 How Labour Made Neoliberalism; 1 Introduction; 2 From Worker Agency to State Agency; 2.1 The Shift to Support the Accord; 2.2 Planning as a Solution to Crisis?; 2.3 Consultation on, and Support for, the Accord; 2.4 Sticking with the Accord; 2.5 Industry Policy and Australia Reconstructed.

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