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Addressing problems for labour not problems of labour: the need for a paradigm shift in work and industrial relations policy
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This paper argued that the policy framework governing work and industrial relations in Australia and other liberal market economies is stuck in an outdated paradigm fixated on solving problems of labour that have diminished or no longer exist, such as excessive union power and overt forms of industrial conflict.Abstract:
ABSTRACT This article argues that the policy framework governing work and industrial relations in Australia and other liberal market economies is stuck in an outdated paradigm fixated on solving problems of labour that have diminished or no longer exist, such as excessive union power and overt forms of industrial conflict. This policy framework is poorly equipped for addressing increasingly urgent problems for labour, such as growing inequality and workforce insecurity. Drawing upon neo-pluralist ideas and the findings emerging from industrial relations research, the article presents recommendations for what a new industrial relations policy framework would look like. It advocates for the adoption of a neo-pluralist policy paradigm focused on the creation of quality employment, worker wellbeing, redistribution in bargaining and wage determination, fairer labour immigration policies, stronger protections against gender-based inequalities, and increased job security.read more
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Our ‘Pacific family’. Heroes, guests, workers or a precariat?
TL;DR: In 2018, Australia introduced the Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) to extend guestwork opportunities into other areas of non-seasonal labour shortage such as aged care, tourism and meat processing as discussed by the authors .
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‘Work not as usual’: work and industrial relations in a post-COVID world
TL;DR: Work and industrial relations are changing in unusual ways as mentioned in this paper , and workers and organisations are responding to changes at work through voice, control and resistance, which is the theme of the 2022 AIRAANZ Conference.
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Policy paradigms, social learning, and the state: the case of economic policymaking in Britain
TL;DR: The authors examined the role of ideas in policy making, based on the concept of policy paradigms, and found that a conventional model of social learning fit some types of changes in policy well but not the movement from Keynesian to monetarist modes of policymaking.
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The COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons on building more equal and sustainable societies
Kristin van Barneveld,Michael Quinlan,Peter Kriesler,Anne Junor,Fran Baum,Anis Chowdhury,Anis Chowdhury,Pramod N. Junankar,Stephen Clibborn,Frances Flanagan,Christopher Wright,Sharon Friel,Joseph Halevi,Al Rainnie +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a group of scholars across the fields of health, economics and labour relations argues that COVID-19 is an unprecedented humanitarian crisis from which there can be no retu...
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The changing system of industrial relations in Great Britain
TL;DR: Among the strengths of this book, I include the following: first, there are good chapters on the structure and organization of employers' associations and trade unions; Secondly, a great deal of attention is properly paid to collective bargaining; Thirdly, there is a great amount of information dealing with the role of the State in industrial relations as mentioned in this paper.
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Feminism Facing Industrial Relations in Britain
TL;DR: This is an opportune time to renegotiate the boundaries between industrial relations theory and feminist analysis in Britain this article, which would involve going beyond an agreement to add women's issues to the research agenda, to a recognition of the gendered character of employment relations and of work itself.
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Reframing Employment Relations: The Case for Neo-pluralism
TL;DR: The Durkheimian assumptions of IR Pluralism as mentioned in this paper have been applied to industrial relations and the new problem of order focuses on links between employment and society, which is a more credible IR paradigm than Kelly's Marxism.