Acknowledgements IX
List of Illustrations X
List of Abbreviations XI
1
Introduction 1
1
The ALP & ACTU Accord 3
2
The Social Contract’s Gala Dinner 6
3
Neoliberalism’s Corporatist Origins 8
4
A Hegemonic Political Project 10
5
Corporatist ‘involucro’ 12
6
A Note on Method 13
7
Structure of the Book 16
2
Theorising the State–Civil Society Relationship 19
1
Introduction 19
1.1
Some Preliminary Comments 20
2
Marx’s Critique of Hegel 22
3
From Critique of Politics to Critique of Political Economy 27
4
From Marx to Gramsci 28
4.1
Lo stato integrale 29
5
Gramsci contra Marx? The Limits of Integration 32
6
Conclusion 34
3
Corporatism in Australia 36
1
Introduction 36
2
Understanding Corporatism 37
3
Panitch’s Approach 38
4
Corporatism and the Accord 41
5
The Context of Arbitration 45
6
Conclusion 50
4
Destabilising the Dominant Narrative 52
1
Introduction 52
1.1
Conceptual Diversity 53
2
The Dominant Narrative 54
2.1
Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism 55
2.2
Klein: The Shock Doctrine 58
2.4
Destabilising the Dominant Narrative 62
3
A Class Approach to Neoliberalism 64
3.1
Harvey: ‘The Restoration of Class Power’ 66
3.2
Davidson: ‘An Entirely New Political Regime’ 68
3.3
A Hegemonic Political Project 70
4
Conclusion 72
5
Periodising Neoliberalism 74
1
Introduction 74
2
Periodising Neoliberalism in Australia 75
3
Proto-neoliberal stage: 1973–1983 77
3.1
The Economic Crisis 77
3.2
The Whitlam Government 81
3.3
The Fraser Government 88
4
Vanguard Neoliberal Stage: 1983–1993 93
4.1
The Impasse of the 1970s 93
4.2
Developing the Accord 97
5
Piecemeal Neoliberalisation Stage: 1993–2008 101
5.1
Howard’s Piecemeal Neoliberalism 104
6
Crisis stage: 2008 Onwards 106
7
Conclusion 107
6
The Disorganisation of Labour 109
1
Introduction 109
2
The Accord Agreement 110
3
Wages and the Accord 113
3.1
The First Accord (1983) 114
3.2
Accord Mark II (1985–1987) 116
3.3
Accord Mark III (1986–1987) 118
3.4
Accord Mark IV (1988–1989), V (1989–1990) & VI (1990–1993) 119
3.5
Accord Mark VII (1993) & VIII (Draft Only) 122
4
Wage Suppression 124
4.1
Labour Disorganisation 127
5
Conclusion 129
7
An Integral State 132
1
Introduction 132
2
Accord Divergences 133
2.2
Prices 138
2.3
‘Big Bang’ and Other Neoliberal Reforms 140
2.4
Trade Liberalisation 142
3
Privatisation 143
4
Social Wage and Contested Understandings 145
4.1
Medicare 147
4.2
Superannuation 148
4.3
Worth the Cost? 152
5
The Concord of Neoliberalism and the Accord 153
5.1
A Brace against Neoliberalism? 154
5.2
Theorising the Corporatism–neoliberalism Connection 159
5.3
An ‘Informal Accord’? 161
5.4
The Accord as Involucro 163
6
Conclusion 166
8
How Labour Made Neoliberalism 167
1
Introduction 167
2
From Worker Agency to State Agency 168
2.1
The Shift to Support the Accord 169
2.2
Planning as a Solution to Crisis? 173
2.3
Consultation on, and Support for, the Accord 174
2.4
Sticking with the Accord 176
2.5
Industry Policy and Australia Reconstructed 179
3
Managing Dissent and Disorganising Labour 185
3.1
Civil Legal Action against Labour Disputes 185
3.2
Deregistration of the Builders Labourers’ Federation 189
3.3
Pilots’ Dispute 191
4
Enterprise Bargaining and the Antinomies of the Accord 195
4.1
Hegemony Unravelling 199
5
Conclusion 205
9
A Return to the International 207
1
Introduction 207
2
A Brief Detour in the Antipodes 209
3
The British Social Contract (1974–1979) 211
4
The Carter Administration (1977–1981) and Prior 214
5
New York City Council Fiscal Crisis (1975–1981) 217
6
Contemporary Finland 220
7
Conclusion 221
10
Conclusion: Neoliberalism at Dusk 224
1
Internal Relations 224
2
Antinomies and Residues 226
3
Neoliberalism at Dusk 228
Appendices 231
Appendix A: List of Australian Governments 231
Appendix B: Timeline of Predecessors to the AMWU 231
References 233
Index 262