How labour built neoliberalism : Australia's accord, the labour movement and the neoliberal project

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    • Humphrys, Elizabeth

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How labour built neoliberalism : Australia's accord, the labour movement and the neoliberal project

by Elizabeth Humphrys

（Studies in critical social sciences, v. 126）

Brill, c2019

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-261) and index

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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 Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Humphrys examines the role of the Labor Party and trade unions in constructing neoliberalism in Australia, and the implications of this for understanding neoliberalism's global advance. These questions are central to understanding the present condition of the labour movement and its prospects for the future.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1The ALP & ACTU Accord 2The Social Contract's Gala Dinner 3Neoliberalism's Corporatist Origins 4A Hegemonic Political Project 5Corporatist 'involucro' 6A Note on Method 7Structure of the Book 2 Theorising the State-Civil Society Relationship 1Introduction 1.1Some Preliminary Comments 2Marx's Critique of Hegel 3From Critique of Politics to Critique of Political Economy 4From Marx to Gramsci 4.1Lo stato integrale 5Gramsci contra Marx? The Limits of Integration 6Conclusion 3 Corporatism in Australia 1Introduction 2Understanding Corporatism 3Panitch's Approach 4Corporatism and the Accord 5The Context of Arbitration 6Conclusion 4 Destabilising the Dominant Narrative 1Introduction 1.1Conceptual Diversity 2The Dominant Narrative 2.1Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism 2.2Klein: The Shock Doctrine 2.3Peck, Theodore, Tickell and Brenner: 'Neoliberalisation' 2.4Destabilising the Dominant Narrative 3A Class Approach to Neoliberalism 3.1Harvey: 'The restoration of class power' 3.2Davidson: 'An entirely new political regime' 3.3A Hegemonic Political Project 4Conclusion 5 Periodising Neoliberalism 1Introduction 2Periodising Neoliberalism in Australia 3Proto-neoliberal stage: 1973-1983 3.1The Economic Crisis 3.2The Whitlam Government 3.3The Fraser Government 4Vanguard Neoliberal Stage: 1983-1993 4.1The Impasse of the 1970s 4.2Developing the Accord 5Piecemeal Neoliberalisation Stage: 1993-2008 5.1Howard's Piecemeal Neoliberalism 6Crisis stage: 2008 Onwards 7Conclusion 6 The Disorganisation of Labour 1Introduction 2The Accord Agreement 3Wages and the Accord 3.1The First Accord (1983) 3.2Accord Mark II (1985-1987) 3.3Accord Mark III (1986-1987) 3.4Accord Mark IV (1988-1989), V (1989-1990) & VI (1990-1993) 3.5Accord Mark VII (1993) & VIII (Draft Only) 4Wage Suppression 4.1Labour Disorganisation 5Conclusion 7 An Integral State 1Introduction 2Accord Divergences 2.1The National Economic Summit and Communique 2.2Prices 2.3'Big bang' and Other Neoliberal Reforms 2.4Trade Liberalisation 3Privatisation 4Social Wage and Contested Understandings 4.1Medicare 4.2Superannuation 4.3Worth the Cost? 5The Concord of Neoliberalism and the Accord 5.1A Brace against Neoliberalism? 5.2Theorising the Corporatism-Neoliberalism Connection 5.3An 'informal Accord'? 5.4The Accord asinvolucro 6Conclusion 8 How Labour Made Neoliberalism 1Introduction 2From Worker Agency to State Agency 2.1The Shift to Support the Accord 2.2Planning as a Solution to Crisis? 2.3Consultation on, and Support for, the Accord 2.4Sticking with the Accord 2.5Industry policy and Australia Reconstructed 3Managing Dissent and Disorganising Labour 3.1Civil Legal Action against Labour Disputes 3.2Deregistration of the Builders Labourers' Federation 3.3Pilots' Dispute 4Enterprise Bargaining and the Antinomies of the Accord 4.1Hegemony Unravelling 5Conclusion 9 A Return to the International 1Introduction 2A Brief Detour in the Antipodes 3The British Social Contract (1974-1979) 4The Carter Administration (1977-1981) and Prior 5New York City Council Fiscal Crisis (1975-1981) 6Contemporary Finland 7Conclusion 10 Conclusion: Neoliberalism at Dusk 1Internal Relations 2Antinomies and Residues 3Neoliberalism at Dusk Appendices Appendix B: Timeline of Predecessors to the AMWU References Index

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