#041: Owen Bennett: When Labour Lost The Plot

Friday, 8 November 2024 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Owen Bennett: When Labour Lost The Plot

For a short time, for a mere three decades, Australia came close to securing the foundations for a truly egalitarian society. Economic historians look back upon this era as "The Golden Age". Full employment was the key to this shared prosperity

Yet in a shocking betrayal of workers, labour activists abandoned the struggle to eliminate involuntary unemployment. Why? And can we return to a full employment economy?

 

Show Notes

 

The Hawke-Keating Hijack : the ALP in transition, by Dean Jaensch (book)

 

Trove (database)
Free, online collections from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. A collaborative effort maintained by the National Library of Australia.

 

Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World (book)
by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi

 

Political Aspects of “Buffer Stock” Employment
by Peter Kriesler & Joseph Halevi, 2016 (article)

 

Modern Monetary Theory - Bill & Warren's excellent adventure (book)
by William Mitchell and Warren Mosler

 

The Job Guarantee -- Weakening Worker Power? (article)
by Michael Hiscox, Aug 22, 2020
Challenge Magazine, The Magazine of the Left of the Australian Labor Party

 

Unionists for a Job Guarantee  
UFJG on facebook

 

Theme Music

 

Pleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck

 

Additional Audio

 

Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck