°Welfare/Warfare
°1973
My friend Steve, who blogs less than I would like him to - so I’m going to cutnpaste here - sends me this in the midst of the tumult, and I appreciate it, not least because it converges some preoccupations of mine (the Ford Strike, queer politics, the emergence of activism as a phenomena, the sense of the archive and a city). The notes on fordism/arousal are here [ 1 2 3 ], and one on activism here. So, I share Steve’s remarks along.
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All India Radio’s “Permanent Revolutions Remix”. Addendum: Ok, some explanation for posting this, other than it’s nice music.
°Student+Migrant+Worker
The remarks below about the connections between student visas and work in Australia were written by Liz. I moved them from the comments under the post about the taxidrivers’ strike in Melbourne so as to prompt further discussion. - a.
So - if you look at Australia, obviously there has always been the use of low-wage migrant labour, and worse, slave labour for indig crew and Pacific Islanders.
However, I would suggest that the transformations in the Australian economy since trade liberalisation in the 1980s (1989 - Professor Ross Garnaut - Australia and the north east asian ascendancy - the policy document that Rudd’s new climate guru wrote convincing Hawke to move to tariff reductions - in textiles this actually predated tariff reductions in the rest of the West), as well as the nationalist counter-reaction from the trade and student unions, have created new and more direct manifestations of the attempt to drive the wage floor down by deliberately tweaking migration schemes towards the creation of low wage and precarious labour markets. As Ange has said many times, it is possible to trace the intersections between the internment camps and the labour market. I’m going to try to do this with a little bit on student visas too… actually, most of this is going to be about student visas, but with other stuff thrown in as poorly organised thoughts.
Filed under: Precarious precarity + Borders + Melbourne + Universities
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°hai hai
The Australian student movement is dead! Long live the global undercommons, may its defiances proliferate! (Read more, download the pdf of an article by Mickie Skelton)
Filed under: Precarious precarity + Melbourne + Universities
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