Neoliberalism: Dominant Narratives and Counter Cases

Humphrys, E

Neoliberalism: Dominant Narratives and Counter Cases

Humphrys, E

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Publisher:: TASA
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of The Australian Sociological Association Conference, 2015, pp. 167 - 173
Issue Date:: 2015

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dc.contributor.author	Humphrys, E https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0192-0426	en_US
dc.date	2015-11-23	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of The Australian Sociological Association Conference, 2015, pp. 167 - 173	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-646-94798-3	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/42150
dc.description.abstract	Most critical scholars posit that the Accord social contract is in competition with, or a buffer against, the roll-out of neoliberalism in Australia. However, the driving force and achievement of the Accord was its agenda of wage cutting and its role in driving the disorganisation of the labour movement — both also key objectives of neoliberal projects. Although corporatism, as a consensual process of political-economic decision making, appears on the surface inconsistent with neoliberalism, it is in fact deeply correlated in the case of Australia. This paper argues that when the Accord is analysed as a process of class rule, and as the form that neoliberalism took, its mechanisms and content are better understood. I use Gramsci’s notion of the integral state to explore the reciprocal interpenetration and buttressing of ‘political society’ and ‘civil society’ (within a state-form) in the Accord era. Subsequently, I argue that the Accord ensured the state could secure the hegemonic project of the capitalist class, through the integration of organised labour into the dominant project.	en_US
dc.publisher	TASA	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of The Australian Sociological Association Conference	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	The Australian Sociological Association	en_US
dc.title	Neoliberalism: Dominant Narratives and Counter Cases	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	Australia	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Cairns, Australia	en_US
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utslib.for	1608 Sociology	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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pubs.finish-date	2015-11-26	en_US
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Abstract:

Most critical scholars posit that the Accord social contract is in competition with, or a buffer against, the roll-out of neoliberalism in Australia. However, the driving force and achievement of the Accord was its agenda of wage cutting and its role in driving the disorganisation of the labour movement — both also key objectives of neoliberal projects. Although corporatism, as a consensual process of political-economic decision making, appears on the surface inconsistent with neoliberalism, it is in fact deeply correlated in the case of Australia. This paper argues that when the Accord is analysed as a process of class rule, and as the form that neoliberalism took, its mechanisms and content are better understood. I use Gramsci’s notion of the integral state to explore the reciprocal interpenetration and buttressing of ‘political society’ and ‘civil society’ (within a state-form) in the Accord era. Subsequently, I argue that the Accord ensured the state could secure the hegemonic project of the capitalist class, through the integration of organised labour into the dominant project.

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