Symposium - Social Democratic Parties and Business: An Historical Analysis Women's College, The University of Sydney, Monday 28 September 2009
Symposium Organisers: Geoff Gallop and Greg Patmore
In recent years Labor/Labour or Social Democratic Governments and business have been close allies in restructuring capitalist economies and increasing the influence of the market on economic life. This thematic section proposes to bring together researchers who are undertaking long-term studies of the relationship between social democratic governments and business from Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.
The programme for the symposium is as follows:
9.00-9.15
Registration
9.15-9.30
Welcome and Introduction
9.30-11.00
Session 1 - Labor in Australia
Tom Bramble (University of Queensland) and Rick Kuhn (ANU), Managing Australian capitalism: Labor economic policy since the 1970s
Damien Cahill (The University of Sydney), Business mobilization, the new right and Australian Labor Governments in the 1980s
Joe Collins (Charles Sturt University) and Drew Cottle (The University of Western Sydney), A New Consensus Hegemony? The Hawke - Keating Labor Governments in Office, 1983-1996
11.00-11.30
Morning Tea
11.30-1.30
Session 2 - International Perspectives
Eva Schandevyl (Free University of Brussels), Labour migration and the Belgian socialist movement since the 1960s
Geoff Robinson (Deakin University), American business and Americanliberalism: rethinking corporate liberalism
Peter Skilling (Auckland University of Technology), New Zealand's fifth Labour Government (1999-2008): A New Partnership with Business and Society
Ashley Lavelle (Griffith University), Social Democratic Parties and Changing Relations with Business and Unions: Australia and Britain Compared
1.30-2.30
Lunch
2.30-4.00
Session 3 - State Enterprises, Privatisation and Deregulation
Murray Goot (Macquarie University), Labor, Government Business Enterprises and Competition Policy
Bob Walker (The University of Sydney) and Betty Con Walker (Centennial Consultancy), Privatisation as public policy
Harry Knowles, Greg Patmore and John Shields (The University of Sydney), Courting the Foreign "Money Power": Labor and Citibank
4.00-4.30
Afternoon Tea
4.30-5.30
Session 4 - Case Studies on the Impact of Neo-Liberalism
Martha Knox Haly (The University of Sydney), Neoliberalism, Child Protection and Disabilities Services: A Deadly Mix
Gay Simpkin (Auckland University of Technology), A Case Study of a union traversing the divide between the Keynesian Welfare National State and Neo-liberalism
5.30-5.45
Conclusion
Further information, including registration details, can be found at [url]http://blhg.econ.usyd.edu.au[url]
The symposium is organised by the Business and Labour History Group, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney and we acknowledge the financial support of the Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney.
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