How Labour Built Neoliberalism

How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movementand the Neoliberal Project......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
1 The ALP & ACTU Accord......Page 16
2 The Social Contract’s Gala Dinner......Page 19
3 Neoliberalism’s Corporatist Origins......Page 21
4 A Hegemonic Political Project......Page 23
5 Corporatist ‘involucro’......Page 25
6 A Note on Method......Page 26
7 Structure of the Book......Page 29
1 Introduction......Page 32
1.1 Some Preliminary Comments......Page 33
2 Marx’s Critique of Hegel......Page 35
3 From Critique of Politics to Critique of Political Economy......Page 40
4 From Marx to Gramsci......Page 41
4.1 Lo stato integrale......Page 42
5 Gramsci contra Marx? The Limits of Integration......Page 45
6 Conclusion......Page 47
1 Introduction......Page 49
2 Understanding Corporatism......Page 50
3 Panitch’s Approach......Page 51
4 Corporatism and the Accord......Page 54
5 The Context of Arbitration......Page 58
6 Conclusion......Page 63
1 Introduction......Page 65
1.1 Conceptual Diversity......Page 66
2 The Dominant Narrative......Page 67
2.1 Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism......Page 68
2.2 Klein: The Shock Doctrine......Page 71
2.3 Peck, Theodore, Tickell and Brenner: ‘Neoliberalisation’......Page 72
2.4 Destabilising the Dominant Narrative......Page 75
3 A Class Approach to Neoliberalism......Page 77
3.1 Harvey: ‘The Restoration of Class Power’......Page 79
3.2 Davidson: ‘An Entirely New Political Regime’......Page 81
3.3 A Hegemonic Political Project......Page 83
4 Conclusion......Page 85
1 Introduction......Page 87
2 Periodising Neoliberalism in Australia......Page 88
3.1 The Economic Crisis......Page 90
3.2 The Whitlam Government......Page 94
3.3 The Fraser Government......Page 101
4.1 The Impasse of the 1970s......Page 106
4.2 Developing the Accord......Page 110
5 Piecemeal Neoliberalisation Stage: 1993–2008......Page 114
5.1 Howard’s Piecemeal Neoliberalism......Page 117
6 Crisis stage: 2008 Onwards......Page 119
7 Conclusion......Page 120
1 Introduction......Page 122
2 The Accord Agreement......Page 123
3 Wages and the Accord......Page 126
3.1 The First Accord (1983)......Page 127
3.2 Accord Mark II (1985–1987)......Page 129
3.3 Accord Mark III (1986–1987)......Page 131
3.4 Accord Mark IV (1988–1989), V (1989–1990) & VI......Page 132
3.5 Accord Mark VII (1993) & VIII (Draft Only)......Page 135
4 Wage Suppression......Page 137
4.1 Labour Disorganisation......Page 140
5 Conclusion......Page 142
1 Introduction......Page 145
2.1 The National Economic Summit and Communiqué......Page 146
2.2 Prices......Page 151
2.3 ‘Big Bang’ and Other Neoliberal Reforms......Page 153
2.4 Trade Liberalisation......Page 155
3 Privatisation......Page 156
4 Social Wage and Contested Understandings......Page 158
4.1 Medicare......Page 160
4.2 Superannuation......Page 161
4.3 Worth the Cost?......Page 165
5 The Concord of Neoliberalism and the Accord......Page 166
5.1 A Brace against Neoliberalism?......Page 167
5.2 Theorising the Corporatism–neoliberalism Connection......Page 172
5.3 An ‘Informal Accord’?......Page 174
5.4 The Accord as Involucro......Page 176
6 Conclusion......Page 179
1 Introduction......Page 180
2 From Worker Agency to State Agency......Page 181
2.1 The Shift to Support the Accord......Page 182
2.2 Planning as a Solution to Crisis?......Page 186
2.3 Consultation on, and Support for, the Accord......Page 187
2.4 Sticking with the Accord......Page 189
2.5 Industry Policy and Australia Reconstructed......Page 192
3.1 Civil Legal Action against Labour Disputes......Page 198
3.2 Deregistration of the Builders Labourers’ Federation......Page 202
3.3 Pilots’ Dispute......Page 204
4 Enterprise Bargaining and the Antinomies of the Accord......Page 208
4.1 Hegemony Unravelling......Page 212
5 Conclusion......Page 218
1 Introduction......Page 220
2 A Brief Detour in the Antipodes......Page 222
3 The British Social Contract (1974–1979)......Page 224
4 The Carter Administration (1977–1981) and Prior......Page 227
5 New York City Council Fiscal Crisis (1975–1981)......Page 230
6 Contemporary Finland......Page 233
7 Conclusion......Page 235
1 Internal Relations......Page 237
2 Antinomies and Residues......Page 239
3 Neoliberalism at Dusk......Page 241
Appendix B: Timeline of Predecessors to the AMWU......Page 244
References......Page 246
Index......Page 275