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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511756103321

Autore

Elizabeth  Humphrys

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-38346-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 268 pages)

Collana

Studies in critical social sciences ; ; Volume 126

Disciplina

329.994

Soggetti

Labor movement - Australia

Neoliberalism - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Theorising the State–Civil Society Relationship -- Corporatism in Australia -- Destabilising the Dominant Narrative -- Periodising Neoliberalism -- The Disorganisation of Labour -- An Integral State -- How Labour Made Neoliberalism -- A Return to the International -- Conclusion: Neoliberalism at Dusk -- Back Matter -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.