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Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck's Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice is a welcome contribution to a new wave of thinking about industrial democracy, one that will hopefully help us reverse the historical trend and meaningfully implement industrial democratic principles into our political economy.
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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Space and place in radical geography -- Chapter 3: Literary geography, the spatial unconscious and The Unknown Industrial Prisoner -- Chapter 4: Abstract space (with antipodean characteristics?) -- Chapter 5: The spatial state -- Chapter 6: Resistance – the struggle for place -- Chapter 7: The limits to the Home Beautiful -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

AbstractThis article argues that the American political system under Donald Trump is an example of what Antonio Gramsci dubbed "Caesarism," a situation where a taut balance of warring class forces allows for the emergence of a third force to freeze the antagonism and challenge/usurp established political institutions. To concretise Gramsci's rather abstract formulation and to better illuminate the nature of American Caesarism, this article employs a reading of the Roman poet Lucan's magisterial Civil War. Through a close reading of this text, we can explore the origins of Caesarism and study the efficacy of different means of struggle against it. Lucan thus helps us reinvigorate the concept of Caesarism and apply it in the contemporary American context. In particular, it will be demonstrated that whereas Lucan depicts a progressive form of Caesarism with a qualitatively new state form, the Trump administration embodies a regressive form of Caesarism within an old state form.

This article employs the methodology of the Parisian regulation approach to periodise Australian capitalism into distinct models of development. Within such models, labour law plays a key role in articulating the abstract capitalist need to commodify labour-power with the concrete realities of class struggle. Given the differential ordering of social contradictions and the distinct relationship of social forces within the fabric of each model of development, such formations will crystallise distinct regimes of labour law. This is demonstrated by a study of the two successive models of development that have characterised Australian political economy since the post-Second World War era: antipodean Fordism (1945 to mid-1970s) and liberal-productivism (late-1980s to the present). The result of this examination is a model of legal analysis that, although tailored to the Australian experience, is capable of application in other contexts.