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Work and industrial relations policy in Australia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellem, Bradon, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Lansbury, Russell D. (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Manpower policy > Australia.
Industrial relations > Government policy > Australia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Epigraph
  • Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Prologue
  • 1 Introducing Industrial Relations Policy
  • The state at work
  • Policy in Australia today
  • An outline of the book
  • 2 Understanding Work, the State and Policy
  • Defining the state
  • Explaining the state and the employment relationship
  • Unitarism
  • Marxism
  • Pluralism
  • Gender and critical perspectives
  • The state's policy goals
  • The state and the policy process
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Policy in Australia: Origins, Change and Legacies
  • Making the first national policy
  • Crisis and 'managed liberalism', 1983-96
  • The neoliberal state, 1996-2007
  • Conclusion
  • 4 The Fair Work Policy Framework
  • The Fair Work Act: key features and policy goals
  • The Fair Work Act: reaction and aftermath
  • Industrial relations policy during COVID-19
  • The 'Secure Jobs, Better Pay' and 'Closing Loopholes' reforms
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Voice: Worker Representation and Collective Bargaining
  • Voice and collective bargaining
  • Unions and the state
  • Bargaining and unions under the Fair Work Act 2009
  • 'Secure Jobs, Better Pay' -. and a new bargaining regime
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Equity: Gender and Work
  • Industrial relations policy and gender equality: an uneasy legacy
  • Changing workforce participation
  • Continuities in women's labour market experiences
  • Policy reforms since 2010: building gender equity at work?
  • A national paid parental leave scheme
  • A right to request flexible working arrangements
  • Improving the quality of feminized jobs
  • 'Secure Jobs, Better Pay' -. and gender equity
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Efficiency: The Productivity Debate
  • Understanding the productivity debates
  • Explaining productivity in the industrial relations context
  • Productivity and industrial relations policy
  • Conclusion
  • 8 Skills and Immigration: Addressing Workforce Needs
  • The skills and immigration policy legacy
  • The national 'skills ecosystem': key policy components
  • Industrial relations policies
  • Training policies
  • Immigration policies
  • Recent reforms to the national skills ecosystem
  • Conclusion
  • 9 Policy Failure: Underpayment and Insecure Work
  • The problem of unlawful underpayment
  • Explanations for unlawful underpayment
  • Policy responses to unlawful underpayment
  • Underpayment as a policy problem for business, 2015-22
  • Underpayment as a policy problem for workers, post-2022
  • Conclusion
  • 10 Policy Subversion: The Gig Work Problem
  • Explaining 'on-demand' gig work
  • The platform economy and online labour platforms
  • Different types of gig work
  • The gig economy and non-standard work debates
  • The dark side of the gig economy
  • The Australian state and the regulation of gig work
  • Gig work and the tribunal and court system