Labour & Industry articles

Recent articles from Labour & Industry

High performance work systems and the social context of work: the role of workplace climate.
August 1, 2008... Introduction The study of strategic human resource management (HRM) has come a long way in a relatively short period of existence. From its inception in the 1980s to the present, a range of theoretical models have been developed and a considerable body of empirical work examining the...

Forward with unfair dismissal claims.
August 1, 2008... Introduction The first purpose of this article is to identify the major principles of the Forward with Fairness (FWF) unfair dismissal revisions to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and to examine the categories of excluded employees that exist under the FWF proposals, compared with those...

Only 'victim' workers need unions? Perceptions of trade unions amongst young Australians.
August 1, 2008... Introduction In August 2008, the front page of The Weekend Australian provocatively claimed that 'unions will recruit children', driven by a desire 'to arrest the dramatic decline in membership numbers among Generation Y' (Hannan 2008a: 1). By the age of 16 most young people are in some...

Special symposium: Public Sociology and Labour Studies.
August 1, 2008... Introduction This symposium on Public Sociology and Labour Studies stems from an event organised at the joint conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) in Auckland in December 2007. Michael Burawoy...

The turn to public sociology: the case of US labour studies.
August 1, 2008... In the United States, 1974 marked a great transformation. In labour studies it was the year of the publication of Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital, and the launching of a Marxist research program focused on the labour process. Braverman turned away from all subjectivist views of...