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

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Elizabeth Humphrys

How Labour Built Neoliberalism

Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project

Elizabeth Humphrys

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Haymarket Books
03 December 2019

History; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Political parties

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In this timely and controversial treatment of the Australian labour movement, Humphrys examines the role of the Labour Party and trade unions in constructing neoliberalism in Australia.

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 Labour 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.

By: Elizabeth Humphrys
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781642590685
ISBN 10: 1642590681
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 03 December 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

Humphry's brilliant How Labour Built Neoliberalism utterly transforms our understanding of modern Australian politics and compels us to rethink established ideas about the role of the trade union movement in the making of neoliberalism. I consider this to be a landmark work in Australian political sociology and an invaluable contribution to the literature on global neoliberalism. -Melinda Cooper, University of Sydney, Author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism(2017, Zone Books).