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The end of the post-World War II 'long boom' in the mid-1970s
proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that
has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and
across the developed world more generally. This is a phenomenon
with deep ramifications for social justice. The dissolution of
productive industry, the fragmentation of employment categories,
the rise of profound employment precarity and an increasingly
hostile legal environment for trade unionism have been of immense
significance for key social justice issues, including income
inequality, the rise of a new working-underclass, and the
marginalization of organised labour. By combining the concepts of
the Parisian Regulation Approach with an explicitly Marxist
jurisprudence, this study offers a theoretically rigorous yet
empirically sensitive account of legal transition, with key case
studies in the metal, food processing and retail sectors. Given the
similar development logic of post-World War II capitalism in
Western societies, this theory, although operationalised in the
Australian context, can be used in the effort to explain labour law
change more broadly.
This book is an original contribution to literary geography and
commentaries on the work of David Ireland. It plots the
relationship between the spaces and places of 1970s Australian
capitalism as it evolves through Ireland's 1971 Miles Franklin
prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. In particular,
the book theorises the relationship between space and place in
literature through two highly innovative arguments: a focus on the
spatial unconscious as a means to assess and track the spatiality
of capitalism in the novel form; and the articulation of a regime
of space through the perceived, conceived and lived constitution of
space. Drawing together concepts from radical geography and
structural Marxist literary theory, it explores the dominance of
the regime of abstract space in the Australian context. The text
also examines the nature and possibilities of place-based
strategies of resistance, and concludes by suggesting opportunities
for future research and plotting the ways in which The Unknown
Industrial Prisoner continues to speak to contemporary Australia.
The end of the post-World War II 'long boom' in the mid-1970s
proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that
has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and
across the developed world more generally. This is a phenomenon
with deep ramifications for social justice. The dissolution of
productive industry, the fragmentation of employment categories,
the rise of profound employment precarity and an increasingly
hostile legal environment for trade unionism have been of immense
significance for key social justice issues, including income
inequality, the rise of a new working-underclass, and the
marginalization of organised labour. By combining the concepts of
the Parisian Regulation Approach with an explicitly Marxist
jurisprudence, this study offers a theoretically rigorous yet
empirically sensitive account of legal transition, with key case
studies in the metal, food processing and retail sectors. Given the
similar development logic of post-World War II capitalism in
Western societies, this theory, although operationalised in the
Australian context, can be used in the effort to explain labour law
change more broadly.
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