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The Neoliberal Governance Of Global Labor Mobility: Migrant Workers And The New Constitutional Moments Of Primitive Accumulation, Hironori Onuki

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

One feature of the ''age of migration'' in which we live has been an increasing movement of labor from the Global South to the North, mainly in ''low-skill'' and low-wage jobs. This article examines how far and in what ways contemporary capital-driven migration-related policies in labor-receiving and labor-sending states have shaped the subjectivity of transnational migrant workers and their positioning in host societies. It does so through the notion of new constitutional moments of primitive accumulation that designates the production of social spaces for the commodification of labor through the implementation of specific migration policies by labor-receiving states in the …

The Minerals Resource Rent Tax: The Australian Labor Party And The Continuity Of Change, John Passant

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to look at the recent history of proposals to tax resource rents in Australia, from Australia's Future Tax System Report (the "Henry Tax Review") through to the proposed Resource Super Profits Tax ("RSPT") and then the Minerals Resource Rent Tax ("MRRT"). The process of change from Henry to the RSPT to the MRRT can best be understood in the context of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as a capitalist workers' party. The author argues that it is this tension in the ALP, the shift in its internal balance further towards capital and …

‘Class Warfare’ Or Not, Australia Has Moved On From Labor’S Old-Fashioned Rhetoric, Gregory Melleuish

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

“Class warfare” is an emotive term that would seem to belong to a bygone age when there also existed, as in the minds of many people, something called the “class struggle”.

It would seem strange that in age when blue-collar jobs seem to be always in decline that anyone should be referring to “class warfare”. The classes of an earlier age are no more. Australia is a different country to what it was in the 1930s and 1940s.

Review: Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party In The United States?, Gregory Melleuish

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Book review: Robin Archer, Why is there no Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton University Press, 2007)