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Work and industrial relations policy in Australia / Bradon Ellem [and five others] ; foreword by Russel D. Lansbury.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellem, Bradon, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial relations--Government policy--Australia.
- Industrial relations.
- Labor--Australia.
- Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book explores the futures of work with an in-depth analysis of Australia's industrial relations policies. Tackling issues like gender, wage theft and work and family as well as universal challenges posed by the climate change, the pandemic and technological advances, expert authors reshape our understanding of labour markets.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Epigraph
- Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Prologue
- 1 Introducing Industrial Relations Policy
- The state at work
- Policy in Australia today
- An outline of the book
- 2 Understanding Work, the State and Policy
- Defining the state
- Explaining the state and the employment relationship
- Unitarism
- Marxism
- Pluralism
- Gender and critical perspectives
- The state's policy goals
- The state and the policy process
- Conclusion
- 3 Policy in Australia: Origins, Change and Legacies
- Making the first national policy
- Crisis and 'managed liberalism', 1983-96
- The neoliberal state, 1996-2007
- 4 The Fair Work Policy Framework
- The Fair Work Act: key features and policy goals
- The Fair Work Act: reaction and aftermath
- Industrial relations policy during COVID-19
- The 'Secure Jobs, Better Pay' and 'Closing Loopholes' reforms
- 5 Voice: Worker Representation and Collective Bargaining
- Voice and collective bargaining
- Unions and the state
- Bargaining and unions under the Fair Work Act 2009
- 'Secure Jobs, Better Pay' -. and a new bargaining regime
- 6 Equity: Gender and Work
- Industrial relations policy and gender equality: an uneasy legacy
- Changing workforce participation
- Continuities in women's labour market experiences
- Policy reforms since 2010: building gender equity at work?
- A national paid parental leave scheme
- A right to request flexible working arrangements
- Improving the quality of feminized jobs
- 'Secure Jobs, Better Pay' -. and gender equity
- 7 Efficiency: The Productivity Debate
- Understanding the productivity debates.
- Explaining productivity in the industrial relations context
- Productivity and industrial relations policy
- 8 Skills and Immigration: Addressing Workforce Needs
- The skills and immigration policy legacy
- The national 'skills ecosystem': key policy components
- Industrial relations policies
- Training policies
- Immigration policies
- Recent reforms to the national skills ecosystem
- 9 Policy Failure: Underpayment and Insecure Work
- The problem of unlawful underpayment
- Explanations for unlawful underpayment
- Policy responses to unlawful underpayment
- Underpayment as a policy problem for business, 2015-22
- Underpayment as a policy problem for workers, post-2022
- 10 Policy Subversion: The Gig Work Problem
- Explaining 'on-demand' gig work
- The platform economy and online labour platforms
- Different types of gig work
- The gig economy and non-standard work debates
- The dark side of the gig economy
- The Australian state and the regulation of gig work
- Gig work and the tribunal and court system
- Gig work and industrial relations policy
- 'Closing Loopholes' and the reregulation of gig work
- 11 The Climate Crisis and Industrial Relations
- Industrial relations and the environment: a disconnected legacy
- Employee voice and the environment: current policy
- Industrial relations actors and environmental policy
- Equity, just transitions and green industrial policy
- 12 Assessing Australian Industrial Relations Policy
- Notes
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3909-5
- 1-5292-3906-0
- 1-5292-3908-7
- OCLC:
- 1519121418
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