by Elizabeth Humphrys | May 17, 2024 | Neoliberalism
A new (fourth) edition of The Companion to Development Studies has recently been published by Routledge (eds. Emil Dauncey, Vandana Desai and Robert B Petter). The book includes my short chapter, ‘Neoliberalism: Different paths within a global project’,...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Aug 29, 2023 | Neoliberalism, unions
The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to public education. In August 2023 I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Reuben Niewenhuis about my book How Labour Built Neoliberalism. You can listen via their website, as...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Nov 22, 2022 | Australian Economy, Disability, Neoliberalism
The following post was first published on the Progress in Political Economy blog, co-authored with Jess Rodgers Marta Russell (1951-2013), the US based writer, activist and leading critical thinker, argued that disability was not a medical condition or impairment, but...
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 22, 2019 | Anti-politics, Neoliberalism
This post was first published at Overland Journal. *** For many, the victory of the Liberal Party on the weekend was crushing. Enthusiasm for an ALP victory was widespread in labour, union and progressive political circles, and clearly this was misplaced. Of...
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...
