Place Matters: Industrial Relations and Regional Development

By Al Rainnie and Renee Paulet

The "New Regionalism" proposes a positive link between work, work organisation, community involvement and regional development.

Academic approaches to IR have traditionally tended to ignore or downplay the role of place and locality according to the authors. They use the development and changes in the Latrobe Valley as an example of their argument about the links between industrial relations, history, locality and community.