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Unemployment and Revolution
First published in Discussion Bulletin 11, August 1981
as an"Australian Political Economy Movement conference paper. Adelaide 8-9 August.
Published by the Red Eureka Movement.
(Part 7 published in Dicussion Bulletin 12, August 1982.)
Contents
Synopsis
Introduction
1. WHAT IS "UNEMPLOYMENT"
Other Societies
Science Fiction
2. WHAT "NORMALLY" CAUSES UNEMPLOYMENT?
The Labour Market
The Unemployment Pool
Changes in the Level of Unemployment
3. WHAT REGULATES UNEMPLOYMENT
What Do the Unemployed Actually Do?
How Unemployment Regulates Wages
Booms and Busts
Wages and Class Struggle
Union Solidarity
Arbitration and Wage Indexation
Capital Accumulation
Technological Change
Job Creation and Destruction
4. TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT
Is It Technological?
"Controlling" Technology
5. "CYCLICAL" UNEMPLOYMENT
Anarchy of Production
Planning and Money
Profitability
Overproduction
Are Wages Too High?
Stimulating Demand
Economic Crisis
6. SOLUTIONS
Giving Fraser the Razor
Blowing Up the Balloon
Fine Tuning
Political Facts
Shorter Hours and Higher Pay
Expanding the Public Sector
Workers' Co-operatives
Labor to Power with Socialist Policies?
Economic Consequences of Statism
Protectionism
"Militant Struggle"
Revolutionary Optimism
7. REVOLUTION
We Need a Program
Expropriating Big Business
Central Planning
Labour Policy
The Struggle for Control
Socialist Management
Investment Planning
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