| work and family |
Work, Life and Time: the Australian Work and Life Index 2007
The Work, Housing, Services and Community Project is a national study exploring how men, women and children think about issues related to work, home and community. In particular, it analyses how changes at work and in households are reconfiguring relationships between work, home, services and community in eight sites across four states. |
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| union rights |
Worker Representation in Australia: Moving Towards Overseas Models?
How far, and in what ways, are overseas systems of worker representation influencing the Australian debate? |
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| wages |
The Minimum Wage: Making it Pay
Minimum wages are hotly debated as ways of improving equity and boosting the wages of lower skilled workers. All OECD countries apply some kind of wage floor. Do they achieve their goals? |
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| working conditions |
The Plight of New Orleans Workers
More than half of New Orleans workers have been victims of labor abuse, according to a new report from Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ), a nonprofit that mobilizes U.S. religious communities on workers’ rights. |
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| union rights - international |
Union With the Devil
The new British minister for trade and investment, now responsible for much of the policy that will affect union members, was not just the head of the Confederation of British Industry; he was the most neanderthal boss the CBI has ever had. |
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| union rights - international |
Choices for Black Labor
I came of age politically in the middle of the Black Power movement. Within the ranks of organized labor, both the Black Power movement and the Anti-Vietnam War movement had a significant impact through the mid1970s. Caucuses were being formed to challenge the bureaucratic leaderships of many unions. |
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| union rights - international |
Redressing Taft-Hartley
Sixty years ago US labor law was dramatically altered in the interests of capital when the Republican-led 80th Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over intense opposition from organized labor. |
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