[PDF] Australian Wage Policy Between 1929 And 1934 eBook

Author : Keith Hancock
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1922064467

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The advent of industrial regulation by tribunal came close to the turn of the century. Wages boards began in Victoria in 1896 and courts of arbitration in 1900. The first day of the new century was also the first day of the Commonwealth of Australia, endowed with a Parliament that was empowered to institute its chosen models of conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of interstate industrial disputes. This book is a study of the operation of conciliation and arbitration, especially by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, from the inception of the system until World War II. It is not, however, a general history of conciliation and arbitration. It does not, for example, deal with the successes and failures of the tribunals in preventing strikes and lockouts; or with the manifold legal issues to which the system gave rise, unless they affected significantly the tribunals' exercise of their power to fix wages and conditions. Rather, it is about fixing the terms of employment; and it attempts to set the tribunals' performance in an economic context. It is about 'wage policy', if the term is interpreted broadly enough to include both prescribed wages and other factors that affect the cost of labour, including working hours and leave.

Author : Ernst Baltensperger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108191444

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This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary institutions and currency that shaped the structure of financial markets and affected the economic course of a country in important ways. They investigate a number of topics, including the functioning of a world without a central bank, the role of competition and monopoly in money and banking, the functioning of monetary unions, monetary policy of small open economies under fixed and flexible exchange rates, the stability of money demand and supply under different monetary regimes, and the monetary and macroeconomic effects of Swiss Banking and Finance. Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century illustrates the value of monetary history for understanding financial markets and macroeconomics today.

Author : Douglas Copland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107692865

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Originally published in 1934, this book was based upon the Alfred Marshall lectures and offers an account of the Great Depression in Australia as it happened in Australia, presenting an outline of the economic crisis and sketching the main lines of policy pursued in reaction to it.

Author : Don Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780642344311

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Working for the dole: Commonwealth relief during the Great Depression (Research guide / National Archives, no. 15)

Author : B.C. Roberts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2024-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040122841

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National Wages Policy in War and Peace (1958) examines the thorny issue of inflation prevention, looking at a host of Western economies in the wartime and postwar period. It looks at the experience of national wage policies under a variety of different economic and social conditions, and concludes that a centrally administered national wages policy cannot be relied upon as a means of preventing inflation. It indicates that this may be achieved with the minimum interference with free collective bargaining if all parties, Government, trade unions and employers exercise their power with responsibility.

Author : Alex Millmow
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1921666277

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Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a 'very dangerous science'. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists' thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and policy sometimes in the public arena. In a decade marked by depression, recovery and international political turbulence Australian economists moved from a classical orthodox economic position to that of a cautious Keynesianism by 1939. We look at how a small collective of economists tried to influence policy-making in the nineteen-thirties. Economists felt obliged to seek changes to the parameters as economic conditions altered but, more importantly, as their insights about economic management changed. There are three related themes that underscore this book. Firstly, the professionalisation of Australian economics took a gigantic leap in this period, aided in part, by the adverse circumstances confronting the economy but also by the aspirations economists held for their discipline. A second theme relates to the rather unflattering reputation foisted upon interwar economists after 1945. That transition underlies a third theme of this book, namely, how Australian economists were emboldened by Keynes's General Theory to confidently push for greater management of economic activity. By 1939 Australian economists conceptualized from a new theoretic framework and from one which they advanced comment and policy advice. This book therefore will rehabilitate the works of Australian interwar economists, arguing that they not only had an enviable international reputation but also facilitated the acceptance of Keynes¿s General Theory among policymakers before most of their counterparts elsewhere.