Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
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The Origins of Corporatism in Australia's Neoliberalization
In Australia, the country was colonized by the British in 1788 without permission and there were intense wars fought between First Nations people and the invaders. In 1901, those states in Australia become federated into a structure which we now call Australia made up of different states and territories. At the same sort of time, a way of managing workers and workplaces was instituted through conciliation and arbitration. This has meant from the very start of the Australian Commonwealth, workers and unions have been highly integrated into these settlement structures within state processes. And these are what we would call corporatist ways of managing things.
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