Asia Pacific Business Review
Выпуск NSpecial Issue 1 за 2000 год
Опубликовано на портале: 24-12-2002
B. McKenna
Asia Pacific Business Review.
2000.
Vol. 7.
Special Issue 1 .
P. 71-104.
This contribution deconstructs globalization using a critical discourse method. Taking
Australia as its case study, the essay argues that globalization must be seen within
the context of hypercapitalism and the unchallenged hegemony of neo-classical economics
and neo-liberal politics. The Australian experience, it is argued, shows that trade
unions should refuse to be incorporated into this hegemony presented as technocratic
alchemy. In fact, deconstruction reveals that globalist claims rest upon highly contestable
tautological claims. This essay briefly describes Australian political economy 1983-96
when the Labor government, in an 'accord' with the trade union movement, embraced
free-market globalism; critically deconstructs the ideological features that underlie
the technocratic claims made about the benefits of globalization; and argues for
a resurgent unionism and traditional labourism that dialectically challenges the
inequitable and destructive features of contemporary hypercapitalism.


