Who Cleans up? The Declining Earnings Position of Cleaners in Australia
| Autor: | Alistair Rainnie, Sasha Holley |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Holley, Sasha, Rainnie, Al |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Earnings business.industry media_common.quotation_subject vulnerable Neoliberalism precarious work Public relations cleaners income disparity networked economy low-paid workers Competition (economics) privatisation and decentralisation outsourcing Workforce Economics Precarious work Prosperity Industrial relations business Productivity media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Economic and Labour Relations Review. 23:143-160 |
| ISSN: | 1838-2673 1035-3046 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/103530461202300109 |
| Popis: | Neoliberal policies of industrial relations decentralisation and privatisation have transformed the economic landscape of Australia in the last 20 years. The primary objective of these policies has been to enhance wealth and prosperity by improving productivity and flexibility of the workforce and competition and accountability in the market. Yet the evidence suggests that precarious workers are not benefiting from this increased prosperity, indeed they suffer by comparison with all other workers. Cleaners are a subset of precarious workers who have been hard hit by the dual impacts of labour market decentralisation and privatisation. This study finds quantitative evidence of an increasing gap in earnings between cleaners and other workers in Australia since the onset of workplace relations decentralisation and the proliferation of privatisation in the mid 1990s. We locate our argument in recent debates about the nature of variegated neoliberalism, the emergence of the networked economy, and the implications of these developments for the nature of work and employment. |
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