- Title
- When Labor stood for full employment
- Creator
- Quirk, Victor
- Relation
- The Way Forward - Austerity or Stimulus? Incorporating the 13th Path to Full Employment Conference and 18th National Conference on Unemployment. The Way Forward - Austerity or Stimulus? Incorporating the 13th Path to Full Employment Conference and 18th National Conference on Unemployment: Proceedings: Refereed papers (Newcastle, N.S.W. 7-8 December, 2011) p. 175-187
- Publisher
- The University of Newcastle, Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- The establishment of post-war full employment (2 per cent unemployment) in Australia was a deliberate policy by the Curtin and Chifley ALP governments of 1941-1949, anticipated in speeches in opposition and at the 1942 Constitutional Convention. Even during 23 years in opposition, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the ALP kept the Coalition government true to its 1949 pledge of maintaining full employment. From the mid 1970s, despite claiming to uphold the values of Curtin and Chifley, the ALP has preserved labour underutilisation to cower working people and drive productivity. This is precisely what Labor’s 1940s leadership most categorically opposed.
- Subject
- Australian Labor Party (ALP); full employment; labour underutilisation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325345
- Identifier
- uon:25247
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780987114341
- Language
- eng
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