Western Australia was the first of the Australian states to legislate for compulsory arbitration. It did so in 1900. The paper presented here examines the paradox of this legislation. It was passed through an Upper House in which employers, who opposed the Bill, decided not to kill the...

There is a substantial body of literature which suggests that employer associations are for Med to provide a countervailing force to trade unions. One for M of countervailing power is organisational parallelism, a situation in which associations' methods of organisation replicates that of...