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The Accord was an agreement between the trade union movement and the Labor governments of the 1980s, under which unions agreed to limit wage claims in return for social wage increases, such as health care, and job creation measures.

Resources

Journals

• Labor Militant, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1983. Image PDF Details
• Labor Militant, vol. 3, no. 2, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1983. Image PDF Details
• Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 9, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, Novermber 1984. Image PDF Details
• Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 8, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1984. Image PDF Details
• Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 4, Labor Militant [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1984. Image PDF Details
• Labor Militant, vol. 4, no. 1, March 1984. Image PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'The real Mr Hawke stands up', Bulletin - Socialist Party of Australian Publication, Socialist Party of Australia, Melbourne, 1 May 1983. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

• McPhillips, Jack, The Accord and its consequences : trade union experiences, New Age Publishers for the Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1985. Image PDF Details
• Pha, Anna and McPhillips, Jack, The crisis, the Accord and Summit communique: what they mean for workers, New Age Publishers for the Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1983. Image PDF Details
• Ross, Liz; Tom O'Lincoln, Tom; Willett, Graham, Labor's accord: why it's a fraud, Socialist Action [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1986. Image PDF Details