Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Impact of Climate Change on Labour
The author has been trying to think through the question of climate change impacts on labour. For me that's a question of protecting workers, but also is this an organising opportunity? Is occupational health and safety in a period when we're going to have massive heat waves and hot days where disenfranchised and poorly paid workers are going to be forced to work?, she asks. "For me adaptation is very much taught in very apolitical terms by everyone as if it's just naturally going to happen"
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