Date and time: Tuesday 12 November 2024, 3pm – 4pm (AEDT)

The UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health and the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre will co-host an online seminar titled “Welfare and inequality after neoliberalism”, presented by Ben Spies-Butcher.

This seminar draws on Ben Spies-Butcher’s recent book Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation to ask how we understand this contradictory politics and what opportunities exist to create a more equal society. It argues an older welfare state politics, driven by the power of industrial labour, is giving way to political contests led by workers within the welfare state itself. Advancing more equal social policy, though, requires new forms of statecraft, or ways of doing policy, as well as new models of organising.

Ben Spies-Butcher teaches Economy and Society in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. He is co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab, and his current research focuses on the political economy of social policy and the welfare state, particularly how economic and political change shape social policy and housing finance.

For further information and registration, please click the following link.

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