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...

This paper focuses on the impact of changing employment patterns on work-related injury and illness outcomes, the accuracy of data bases recording these and the appropriateness of current prevention policies and inspectoral strategies.

The analysis of Australian union behaviour, growth and structure has centred on the relationship between unions and arbitration. To varying degrees it has been assumed that Australian unions are, through their involvement and legal incorporation into the arbitral system of labour market...

The claim that the values espoused by senior managers are important for explaining the way actions are organised inside organisations has been made by a number of organisational psychological reserachers. However, empirical reserach committed to investigating such a proposition has to date been...

This paper is part of a wider study that seeks to ascertain the types of internal and external labour market practices and the extent to which labour market arrangements vary between three divisions of the Australian and New Zealand affiliate of an international investment banking institution.

This paper provides an overview of the types of occupational violence commonly experienced in Australia and other western industrialised countries, incidence and severity patterns, and identifies the most "at risk" jobs.

This paper offers a systematic overview of the working class, refutes common arguments about its supposed disappearance or irrelevance, and seeks to demonstrate the power of Marxist analysis in explaining its role and behaviour. We understand the workingclass as those who do not own or control...

Over the past decade the rapid expansion in outsourcing/subcontracting has caused a significant shift in labour markets and work organisation within many industrialised societies. The occupational health and safety (OHS) consequences of subcontracting have received little attention from...

This manuscripts seeks to test a comprehensive model of job relocation decisions by conducting two independent but complementary investigations.

This paper presents a collective bargaining simulation simulation in order to aid the teaching industrial relations issues in sport.