The State, the Steel Industry and BHP
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 18 (3) , 339-363
- https://doi.org/10.1177/144078338201800304
Abstract
Discussions on the relationship between the state and capital are frequently devoid of empirical referents. Connections need to be made between companies, individual capitals, fractions of capital and capital itself, if the insights of state theorists are to be useful in analysing power relations within existing social formations. Following an earlier analysis of the regional state and BHP in Whyalla, this article turns again to BHP and the state, this time at the federal political level. In doing so it illustrates effects of state-BHP relations on sections of the working class in the Wollongong region, and affirms 'relative autonomy' as a useful construct.Keywords
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