The context of the paper is the relationship between the roles of government as an employer, as a prime generator of polivy and as financial controller. The overaching issue is the extent it is possible to match public sector industrial relations with the general policy directions of government...

Community, locality, and personal identity are increasingly being recognised as important for the study of labour history. This is not to guggest that communities and localities were previously ignored. On the contrary, numerous studies of coal mining and steel making industries acknowledged the...

Since the early 1970s memebership has been in a process of continual decline inmost industrialised countries, including Australia. Australian Bureau of Statistics survey datae estimates Australian union density rates declined twenty percentage points between 1975 ( 51.0 percent) and 1996 (31.0...

This paper sets out to examine the extent to which the cross-cultural management (CCM) literature acknowledges the effects of national culture on differentially shaping subordinate perceptions of what constitutes "good" or "effective" management.

Over the last decade a large decline in union membership and influence has been observed in many countries. This observation has prompted many researchers to consider the means by which individual unions are able to mitigate the effects of less favourable economic and political conditions on...

The paper argues that the adoption of more flexible labour policies has been a major feature of work and employment restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s. We argue that there are three main dimensions of labour utilisation: work intensification; job broadening and employment insecurity. These...

The Asutralian esperience of corporatism challenges the view that curtailing trade union influence is an essential component of successful industrial adjustment , and that trade union influence has been preserved or enhanced. This paper rejects both propositions.

South Africa faces many difficult problems in designing economic institutions in the post apartheid era. No sub-set is more controversial than those which condition and structure exchange in the labour market. What set of institutions will help to solve the key social problems of inequality and...

In 1854, a select committee of the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament met to consider what measures were needed to improve roads and introduce railways in teh colony. The same year, the Sydney Railway Company collapsed when the costs involved in constructing a railway line...

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.