In her recent
book How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and
the Neoliberal Project (Brill, 2018), Elizabeth Humphrys
challenges the narrative that neo-liberalism was generally imposed onto labour by
right-wing governments such as the Thatcher government in the UK and the Reagan
government in the US during the 1980s. Through a detailed analysis of the
Australian political economy between 1983 and 1996, she demonstrates how
restructuring was also carried out by a Labour Party in close co-operation with
trade unions. In this blog post, I will provide a critical engagement with this
important book.
Adam D. Morton and Andreas Bieler are delighted
to announce the Australia book launch of GlobalCapitalism, Global War, Global Crisis, which will be at Gleebooks on 7
December, at 6:00pm and chaired by Elizabeth Humphrys. Having launched the book
in the UK at the British International Studies Association (BISA) annual
conference in Bath and at the independent bookshop FiveLeaves Books in
Nottingham, as well as at the European International Studies Association (EISA)
conference in Prague, we are very much looking forward to this launch in
Sydney.
