Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
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The Role of the Unions in the Development of Neoliberalism
Australia and New Zealand have very similar industrial relations systems, this centralized arbitration conciliation. It means that often the countries are really compared quite closely because they're kind of like each other. But every country is unique, and the US has its own peculiarities and challenges in terms of organizing. Of course, it's wonderful when you see Amazon workers and gig workers and others, trying to think new ways of organizing in new industrial regimes where there are particularly for workers with limited power.
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