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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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