| union rights - international |
The Unions’ Man?
John Edwards does more than talk the talk on workers’ but will he walk away with labor’s endorsement? |
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| employment |
The Geography of Employment Polarisation in Britain
There has been a growth in the number of high-paid and low-paid jobs in Great Britain relative to middle-ranking occupations. This paper examines the geographical pattern of employment polarisation across the British regions – and is the first piece of empirical research to look at this specific issue. |
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| employment |
Job Mobility and Segmentation in Australian City Labour Markets
Cities have developed a unique potential for achieving successful outcomes, by virtue of their scale, networks and advanced service functions. These attributes are said to have afforded city workers higher earnings and greater opportunity to appropriate productivity gains through job mobility. |
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| union rights |
Trade Unionism, Individual Contracts and the MUA’s Doppelgänger
Australian public debate commonly frames industrial relations as a contest between collective bargaining and individual agreements; between union organisation and freedom of contract. Yet in most workplaces, the alternative to union organisation is not the absence of collective organisation, but collective organisation according to other pressures and limitations upon which individual contracts are merely juxtaposed. |
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| women and employment |
Down and Out with Work Choices: The Impact of Work Choices on the Work and Lives of Women in Low Paid Employment
The report presents the experiences and views of twenty five women in low paid work who have been affected by Work Choices. |
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| work and family |
Not Fair, No Choice: The Impact of WorkChoices on Twenty South Australian Workers and their Households
This report examines the experiences of twenty workers affected by changes to industrial law in Australia following the enactment of amendments to the federal Workplace Relations Act, 1996 in March 2006, commonly referred to as the WorkChoices amendments. |
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| Policy |
What Labor Can Learn From Itself
Labor was in Federal office for 13 years between 1983 and 1996. Everybody knows this except, it seems, the Labor Party. |
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| productivity |
Productivity – a Dead End?
In the March quarter National Accounts, the Government took glee in finding a rise in productivity. After three years of flat performance, productivity finally showed a small rise in the latest two quarters. Thus was the Government's WorkChoices policy apparently vindicated. Lets look at little harder. |
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