Recently added articles from Labour & Industry:

Collective bargaining rights under the Workplace Relations Act: the Boeing dispute.

Aug 01, 2007; Whittard, Jenny ... Introduction Central to orderly industrial relations in any pluralist society is the right of workers to join unions and to bargain collectively; indeed, this is considered by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to be a fundamental human right. However, the enactment of ...

Dispute resolution under WorkChoices: the first year.

Aug 01, 2007; Forsyth, Anthony ... Introduction The Coalition government's WorkChoices legislation has made major changes to the methods and institutional arrangements for resolving workplace disputes in Australia. Traditionally the domain of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC or Commission), ...

WorkChoices and family-friendly working hours: an assessment of data sources.

Aug 01, 2007; Jefferson, Therese ... Introduction In March 2006, the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill introduced significant changes to the operation of the Workplace Relations Act 1996. The government's stated goal for the new regulations was: <Pre> ... to create a more flexible, ...

An adaptive institution? The German vocational education system and pressures for change.

Aug 01, 2007; Gough, Richard ... Introduction The German approach to vocational education and training (VET) has attracted ongoing attention from academic commentators. It was a subject of the overseas studies undertaken by Australian industry and union representatives in the mid-1980s during the early period ...

Recasting peak union power: the Labor Council of New South Wales and the 2001 workers' compensation dispute.

Aug 01, 2007; Rathmell, Aaron ... Introduction The Labor Council of New South Wales (the Labor Council) was formed in 1871 to promote the common interests of sectional unions (paraphrasing Ellem, Markey and Shields 2004: 1). It has enjoyed particular success as a peak union since the middle of the twentieth ...

'Lies, damned lies and statistics': the Business Coalition for Workplace Reform campaign of 2007.

Aug 01, 2007; Lyons, Michael ... Introduction The origin of the axiom, 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics', remains uncertain, though it is often attributed to the nineteenth-century British Conservative Party politician, Benjamin Disraeli (later Earl of Beaconsfield). The origin ...

Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation: Essays on the Construction, Constitution and Regulation of Labour Markets and Work Relationships.(Book review)

Aug 01, 2007; Mourell, Mark ... LABOUR LAW AND LABOUR MARKET REGULATION: ESSAYS ON THE CONSTRUCTION, CONSTITUTION AND REGULATION OF LABOUR MARKETS AND WORK RELATIONSHIPS C Arup, P Gahan, J Howe, R Johnstone, R Mitchell and A O'Donnell (eds) Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, 768 pages, $125, (hardcover). Labour ...

Global Industrial Relations.(Book review)

Aug 01, 2007; Blumenfeld, Stephen ... GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS M Morely, P Gunnigle and D Collings (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, South Yarra, 2006, 354 pages, $80 (paperback). As the editors of Global Industrial Relations, note in their introduction, considerable insights can be gained from studying organisation ...

Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions.(Book review)

Aug 01, 2007; Macdonald, Fiona ... SELF-EMPLOYED WORKERS ORGANIZE: LAW, POLICY, AND UNIONS CJ Cranford, J Fudge, E Tucker and L F Vosko, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, 265 pages, paperback. This book is about self-employed workers in precarious employment and their attempts to ...

The Law of Work.(Book review)

Aug 01, 2007; French, Ben ... THE LAW OF WORK R Owens and J Riley, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2007, 559 pages, $95.00 (paperback). The world of work and the laws that govern our workplaces are continually evolving in the 21st Century Australia and throughout the world. This book by Rosemary Owens ...

The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management: Fordism and Post-Fordism.(Book review)

Aug 01, 2007; Hampson, Ian ... THE FORDISM OF FORD AND MODERN MANAGEMENT: FORDISM AND POST-FORDISM H Beynon and T Nichols (eds), Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, Two Volumes, Vol. 1485 pages, Vol. 2 585 pages, 295 [pounds sterling], (hardcover). Post-Fordism posits a binary history, in which the moving ...