[PDF] The Wages Crisis In Australia eBook

Author : Keith Hancock
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 11,99 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 : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521643948

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Since the 1970s the average level of unemployment in Australia has risen each decade. This has imposed huge economic, social and human costs, making unemployment one of the most pressing problems confronting Australia. Governments, however, seem powerless in the face of this problem. Drawing on the expertise of some of Australia's leading economists, this book, first published in 2000, argues that the currently fashionable approaches of wage cuts and further steps towards labour market flexibility will not solve the unemployment problem. In reality, unemployment and rising inequality are symptoms of the growing failure of contemporary labour markets to distribute jobs and incomes effectively. The contributors argue that the main solution to this problem is not wage cuts but jobs growth. This important book points to a way beyond the current policy malaise and offers detailed solutions to unemployment.

Author : Keith Windschuttle
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Australia
ISBN :

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Monograph on social implications and political aspects of economic recession in Australia, with particicular reference to unemployment - examines implications for youths and families, the growth of crime, mental diseases and mortality, the unemployment of woman workers, etc., And analyses government policies, and attitudes of mass media, political partys and trade unions. Bibliography pp. 322 to 331, graphs, references and statistical tables.

Author : Paul A. McGavin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Focusing on the wages policy of Australia's Whitlam Government and its socio-economic implications, this study concludes that the policy counteracted the Government's stated first priority--employment.