This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the institutions and processes shaping work, labour markets and industrial relations policies in Australia.
It explores traditional industrial relations issues and examines social change and policy failures, in areas such as gender, work and family dynamics, skills and immigration and wage theft. Additionally, it considers how pandemics, climate change, technological advances and new business forms impact policy change. Addressing these universal challenges, the book offers fresh conceptual approaches and rethinks policy problems and solutions.
Essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners, this book reshapes our understanding of work and industrial relations policy.
Table of Content
1. Introducing Industrial Relations Policy
2. Understanding Work, the State and Policy
3. Policy in Australia: Origins, Change and Legacies
4. The Fair Work Policy Framework
5. Voice: Worker Representation and Collective Bargaining
6. Equity: Gender and Work
7. Efficiency: The Productivity Debate
8. Skills and Immigration: Addressing Workforce Supply and Demand
9. Policy Failure: Underpayment and Insecure Work
10. Policy Subversion: The Gig Work Problem
11. The Climate Crisis and Industrial Relations
12. Assessing Australian Industrial Relations Policy
About the author
Chris F. Wright is Professor of Work and Labour Market Policy at the University of Sydney.
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