How Labour Built Neoliberalism

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34900-1
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Brill

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humphrys, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Communiqué

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

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Humphrys is a political economist at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published on trade union and social movement responses to crisis, including in Globalizations and Critical Sociology. She completed her Ph.D. (2016) at the University of Sydney.