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Article: The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration.(Book review)
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- Labour & Industry
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- December 1, 2005
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THE NEW PROVINCE FOR LAW AND ORDER: 100 YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre (eds), Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2004, $79.95 (hardcover).
When workers made redundant as a result of the One-Tel collapse in mid-2002 successfully applied to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to secure redundancy entitlements, I recall one newspaper headlining the story: 'New Economy Workers Get Old Economy Solution'. The point seemed to be that for all the idiot boosterism and snake oil salesmanship surrounding the NASDAQ bubble, telling us we were entering a new version of capitalism where the old rules did ...