The chaebol, family-controlled conglomerates, which now dominate the South Korean economy constitute a unique type of business enterprise in the development worldwide of capitalist economies. With the support of a developmentalist state, the chaebol played a central role in rapid...

Shortly after the re-election of the Howard government in October 1998 a group of five prominent economists proposed a plan to 'cut the jobless rate' in an open letter addresses to the Prime Minister (The Australian, October 26 1998). This article seeks to critically consider the economist's...

The paper explain how the Workers' Education Association's accomodation of apparently divergent imperial influences from the UK and the USA prevented a long-lasting compact between its labour movement and middle class membership. In the aftermath of World War ONe, conflict between the competing...

When theWorkplace Relations Act 1996 was introduced by the current government in 1996, it was justified on the basis that it provided a regulatory framework which allowed firms to structure their industrial relations practices to suit their own needs and those of their employees. This paper...

This paper examines the relationship between workplace reform and occupational health and safety. Since the early 1980s major changes have occured to both industrial relations and occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation. Legislative changes and policy initiatives have created both...

In this paper, the authors contented that a multi-faceted and organisation-wide approach has to be adopted in the prevention of occupational violence on health care facilities.

Scientific management has traditionally been closely associated with time and motion studies, payment incentives schemes and industrial efficiency. The following discussion reconsiders this portrayal by arguing that the combined effect of F.W. Taylor's philosophy, principles and methods made his...

Women's involvement in trade unions and their direct participation in industrial action has been the subject of growing interest for labour historians and industrial relations scholars. Some research has also concentrated on women's indirect participation to paid work. However just as this field...

Creighton, Ford and Mitchell note that "No published research on the use made by Australian unions of the registration provisions of the British 'model' of the 1870s is available, and therefore the precise impact of these statutes remains open to further examination". The central purpose of this...

With a few notable exceptions, economic and labour historians have also shown litlle interest in analysing the operation and impact of performance-based payment systems in Australia. With a view to shedding more light on the long-term impact of such schemes, this paper examines the origin,...