The State of Industrial Relations Download

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H.V. Evatt Foundation, Sydney, 2008, 104 pp., $24.95 plus $5 postage. Available from the Evatt Foundation at Trades Hall, 4 Goulburn St. Sydney, 2000.

The WorkChoices legislation was one of the most destinctive policy commitments of the Howard government.  The Your Rights at Work campaign was a key element in its defeat.  As Chris Sheil notes in his introduction to this volume, the campaign gained much impact from use of TV advertisements – such as the fraught woman, trying to balance shift work and childcare, being threatened by her boss over the phone.  Critical analyses of WorkChoices by industrial relations researchers and political economists also provided important ammunition to the struggle: these included the special WhoseChoices? issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (December 2005), a special issue of the Economic and Labour Relations Review (2006), David Peetz’s book Brave New Workplace (2006) and a special issue of the Evatt Foundation’s State of the States that emphasised ‘the State of Industrial Relations’.  It is hard to recall any other process in which the contribution of Australian political economy and industrial relations researchers was so closely linked to effective activism – and political success.

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