How Labour Built Neoliberalism

Humphrys, Elizabeth

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“…The two labour market programs emerged out of a policy environment dominated, in recent decades, by neoliberalism. In Australia, neoliberalism reshaped the political landscape in a distinctive way, one different to the more-studied Anglosphere of North America and northwest Europe, or even to New Zealand (Humphrys, 2019). This is primarily because Australia's transition from an economic nationalist policy framework was pioneered by social democrats rather than conservatives.…”

Section: Understanding the Two Labour Market Programsmentioning

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Punish, protect or redirect? Synthesising workfare with ‘spatially Keynesian’ labour market policies in times of job loss

Barnes

2022

Environ Plan A

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The relationship between job loss and workfare has been well documented. Workers who lose jobs, including long-term careers in previously secure employment, enter systems of workfare that churn them through precarious jobs in return for meagre income support. But the relationship between workfare and alternative systems of labour market assistance rolled out before job loss is less understood. To shed new light on this issue, this article critically analyses an attempt to synthesise two labour market policies implemented in response to the closure of Australia's automotive manufacturing industry in 2017. The first policy was an altruistic, spatially Keynesian response to deindustrialisation; the second policy was based on Australia's notoriously punitive system of workfare. The article asks: how was it possible to synthesise systems framed in mutually incompatible terms? This question can be addressed, it argues, by deploying an Agency-Structure-Institutions-Discourse (ASID) approach to understand how and why these labour market policies were hybridised. The article's results are instructive in a ‘post-pandemic’ environment in which opportunities to rollout alternatives to workfare will be forced to contend with resurgent workfare states.

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Section: Understanding the Two Labour Market Programsmentioning

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Punish, protect or redirect? Synthesising workfare with ‘spatially Keynesian’ labour market policies in times of job loss

Barnes

2022

Environ Plan A

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“…97 But the agreement "quickly narrowed to focus almost exclusively on wages". 98 On coming to office the government saw "political gold" in the "inherited […] fiscal mess" which enabled it to "cast aside many of its election promises". 99 Under the so-called "trilogy" commitments of 1984, which were self-imposed fiscal restraints, it became impracticable to implement the Accord in full.…”

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The “Eloquence” of Robert J. Hawke: United States informer, 1973–79

Coventry¹

2021

Aus J of Politics History

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In the 1970s, the leader of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and future Prime Minister of Australia, Robert J. "Bob" Hawke, was an informer of the United States of America. Using diplomatic cables from official archives, this article shows that Hawke gifted information about the Australian government, the Australian Labor Party and the labour movement, assisting the intelligence gathering efforts of the foreign power. In turn, the relationship influenced the development of Australian policy, including the abandonment of Keynesian economics and embrace of neoliberalism. His discreet relationshipdiscussed in detail for the first timewas not unusual among elites in the post-war period. However, Hawke was especially entrenched in the practise. This article will also show, through historiography and memoir, that the act of informing by elites began in the 1940s, as the United States was becoming Australia's key strategic ally.

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“…As Jayasuriya (2015) argued, this project of market citizenship emerged from a social democratic party in power during the so-called Hawke and Keating period. In Australia, it was the Australian Labor Party that initiated the process of neoliberal restructuring (Humphrys, 2019;Johnson, 2007). This political configuration has shaped the way that the higher education regulatory state has developed in the Australian context.…”

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COVID-19, markets and the crisis of the higher education regulatory state: the case of Australia

Jayasuriya

2020

Globalizations

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This article explores the impact of COVID-19 on the Australian higher education system. It analyses how the contradictions of Australian higher education, driven by expanding participation in the higher education system within the context of contained public funding, have been politically managed through regulatory regimes that link the public university with the neoliberal capitalist economy. Such modes of state intervention have been dependent on financialized instruments such as income contingent loans, the educationmigration nexus, and precarious work. These regulatory instruments, embedded within a project of market citizenship, have both managed and expanded the marketization of higher education while also expanding participation. It is this regulatory model of market citizenship that is now facing a crisis of crisis management.

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How Labour Built Neoliberalism

Cited by 41 publications

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Punish, protect or redirect? Synthesising workfare with ‘spatially Keynesian’ labour market policies in times of job loss

Punish, protect or redirect? Synthesising workfare with ‘spatially Keynesian’ labour market policies in times of job loss

The “Eloquence” of Robert J. Hawke: United States informer, 1973–79

COVID-19, markets and the crisis of the higher education regulatory state: the case of Australia

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