by Elizabeth Humphrys | Aug 11, 2020 | Accord, Australian Economy, unions
The May issue of the journal Labour History carried a roundtable discussion of my book How Labour Built Neoliberalism. The special section ‘Assessing the Accord and Labour’s Role in Neoliberalism’ (paywalled) features contributions from Frank Bongiorno...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | May 20, 2020 | Accord, Australian Economy, Neoliberalism, unions
By Elizabeth Humphrys and Amy Thomas Union members in the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) are in the midst of a turbulent debate over a proposed national Jobs Protection Framework (JPF). Universities have been excluded from the JobKeeper scheme just as...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | May 17, 2019 | Accord, Australian Economy, Australian History, Neoliberalism
When I was in grade five there was a vote in class. We were asked, who do you want to win the election, Hawke or Fraser? Only one child in that working class school in Hoppers Crossing voted for the Liberals, such was the hope and desire of working class families for...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Jan 11, 2019 | Accord, Events
In December I was delighted to launch my first book, How Labour Built Neoliberalism, published with Brill’s Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series. From the cover blurb: Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 25, 2018 | Accord, Australian Economy, Australian History, Neoliberalism
2016 marked the 25th anniversary of Michael Pusey’s seminal text of economic sociology, Economic Rationalism in Canberra. As a detailed analysis of top bureaucrats in Canberra who had adopted free market ideas and the transformation of public policymaking, Pusey’s...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 5, 2018 | Accord, Australian Economy, Australian History, unions
This week my colleague Sarah Gregson (UNSW) and I are on the GLAMcity podcast talking about the history of work, labour under the Accord, and the memorialisation of those killed in the West Gate Bridge collapse & the Titanic disaster. You can listen to the...
