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?
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
Pleading Ignorance, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck
Too Many Things, by Ed Kuepper, from the album Starstruck
Anne Maxwell & Kevin Gaynor
