Labor’s Accord: How Hawke and Keating began a neo-liberal revolution
- https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2012/50/labors-accord-how-hawke-and-keating-began-a-neo-liberal-revolution/
Hawke and Keating’s Accord agreement was designed to hold back wages and conditions and weakened union power, argues Feiyi Zhang.
Labor in power: the lessons of the Accord
- https://solidarity.net.au/mag/back/2010/27/labor-in-power-the-lessons-of-the-accord
The Labor government of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating set out to cut wages and restore profits as part of a neo-liberal restructuring program, argues Jean Parker
Ultra low wage growth isn’t accidental. It is the intended outcome of government policies
- https://theconversation.com/ultra-low-wage-growth-isnt-accidental-it-is-the-intended-outcome-of-government-policies-113357
For more than forty years, both the architecture of labour market regulation and the discretionary choices of governments have been designed with the precise objective of holding wages down.
The Accord, the labour market and the economy
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022185613517475
This article discusses the economic circumstances and effects of the Accord, noting always the difficulty of reaching firm conclusions because of counterfactual uncertainties.
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