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Examines the thought of Friedrich Hayek, pointing up ideas that oppose the positions of his right-wing supporters. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, centered on an exploration of why a planned, state-managed economy must tend toward totalitarianism, underpins the discussion. In warning against socialism (& collectivism), Hayek is seen to neglect its forms that are not in pursuit of the perfect society, & from this, critics of the left are chastised for using Hayek to make their arguments because his ideas are seen as rather more limited than devastating. In this light, collectivism is defended & Hayek is critiqued. D. Edelman

This article compares government promoted call centre initiatives in New Zealand and New Brunswick, Canada, thereby identifying differing policies and practices associated with 'globalization'. Both New Brunswick and New Zealand are small resource based economies in which policy makers aspire to attract foreign investment into call centres as a new means of economic growth and job creation. However there are significant differences between the two call centre strategies. In New Brunswick the provincial government plays a central role, most notably through the use of incentives to lure companies to the province but also through the coordination of education and training. In New Zealand an informal network made up of public and private sector actors drives the strategy, and the relevant government agency (Trade NZ) plays only a coordinating role. Despite these differences both call centre strategies aspire to link service sector activities into global flows and networks, and foster low wage and feminized forms of employment.

Conceptualisations of employment in the New Zealand telecommunications industry are no longer shaped by the notion of a social partnership between union and employer in a national labour market. Rather they are constituted through managerialist discourses in which individual and enterprise are linked in the pursuit of international competitiveness. One consequence of this shift is that workers are more directly exposed to the mechanisms of the market. Drawing from the neo- Foucauldian literature on governmentality, the paper traces qualitative shifts in the discourses and practices governing the employment of workers in the New Zealand telecommunications industry, thereby elucidating the contested processes through which the re-commodification of labour was achieved.