Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia
By Bradon Ellem, Chris F. Wright, Stephen Clibborn, Rae Cooper, Frances Flanagan and Alex Veen
Published
1 May 2025Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529239065Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
1 May 2025Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529239058Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
1 May 2025Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1529239072Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the institutions and processes shaping work, labour markets and industrial relations policies in Australia.
It explores traditional industrial relations issues and examines social change and policy failures, in areas such as gender, work and family dynamics, skills and immigration and wage theft. Additionally, it considers how pandemics, climate change, technological advances and new business forms impact policy change. Addressing these universal challenges, the book offers fresh conceptual approaches and rethinks policy problems and solutions.
Essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners, this book reshapes our understanding of work and industrial relations policy.
Bradon Ellem is a Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Sydney.
Chris F. Wright is Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney.
Stephen Clibborn is Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney.
Rae Cooper is Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations at the University of Sydney.
Frances Flanagan is Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology Sydney.
Alex Veen is Senior Lecturer in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney.
1. Introducing Industrial Relations Policy
2. Understanding Work, the State and Policy
3. Policy in Australia: Origins, Change and Legacies
4. The Fair Work Policy Framework
5. Voice: Worker Representation and Collective Bargaining
6. Equity: Gender and Work
7. Efficiency: The Productivity Debate
8. Skills and Immigration: Addressing Workforce Supply and Demand
9. Policy Failure: Underpayment and Insecure Work
10. Policy Subversion: The Gig Work Problem
11. The Climate Crisis and Industrial Relations
12. Assessing Australian Industrial Relations Policy
