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

How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movementand the Neoliberal Project
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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 Gramsci
4.1 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 Neoliberalism
3.1 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 Conclusion
6 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 Understandings
4.1 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
3 Managing Dissent and Disorganising Labour
3.1 Civil Legal Action against Labour Disputes
3.2 Deregistration of the Builders Labourers’ Federation
3.3 Pilots’ Dispute
4 Enterprise Bargaining and the Antinomies of the Accord
4.1 Hegemony Unravelling
5 Conclusion
9 A Return to the International
1 Introduction
2 A Brief Detour in the Antipodes
3 The British Social Contract (1974–1979)
4 The Carter Administration (1977–1981) and Prior
5 New York City Council Fiscal Crisis (1975–1981)
6 Contemporary Finland
7 Conclusion
10 Conclusion: Neoliberalism at Dusk
1 Internal Relations
2 Antinomies and Residues
3 Neoliberalism at Dusk
Appendices
Appendix A: List of Australian Governments
Appendix B: Timeline of Predecessors to the AMWU
References
Index