Intro -- How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movementand the Neoliberal Project -- Copyright -- 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 Communiqu�e -- 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.

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