Librarians and Australia's changing industrial relations: ‘a new province for…’ what?
| Autor: | Phil Teece |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | The Australian Library Journal. 45:198-208 |
| ISSN: | 2201-4276 0004-9670 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00049670.1996.10755759 |
| Popis: | Australia's industrial relations system has entered a period of unprecedented change. The swing to enterprise bargaining and decentralised wage fixing is well advanced. A new Federal Government is certain to hasten and extend this trend with the greatest change to established laws and institutions since Federation. Likely outcomes from imposition of these laws are uncertain. Occurring simultaneously, and largely driving the shifts in our labour law and practices, is a labour market crisis which is creating devastating unemployment across the industrialised world. Deliberate action to shed jobs and displace workers is an epidemic in corporations here and overseas. But signs are emerging that international opinion leaders are now concerned about the threat to social and political stability that the preoccupation with ‘downsizing’ represents. This paper argues that more serious attention to the creation of work is essential if changes to industrial relations and the labour market are to prove effective in ge... |
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