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Posts Tagged ‘labour’

         
 

Temporary migrant workers in Australian agriculture

Stuart Rosewarne | February 18, 2020

The agricultural industry throughout the world has great trouble recruiting and retaining workers drawn from the local population and has become reliant on temporary migrant workers to undertake work which is low paid and arduous. The viability of many of the industry’s branches, and [...]

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Globalization and Labour in the 21st century: Reflections on Verity Burgmann

Andreas Bieler | January 14, 2020

Verity Burgmann has produced an excellent, broad coverage of different instances of resistance by labour movements from around the world in her book Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2016). It includes accounts of occupied factories in Argentina, opposition to [...]

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Labo(u)r and neoliberalism

Lee Rhiannon | March 26, 2019

In August Laurie Carmichael, former AMWU and ACTU leader, former president of the Communist Party of Australia and one of the architects of the accord, died. In October commemorations of Laurie’s life were held in Melbourne and Sydney. I attended the Sydney event. It was very moving and [...]

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Open Letter on the Benefits of Promoting Faster Wage Growth

Jim Stanford | March 20, 2019

Signed by 124 Labour Market, Employment Relations and Labour Law Researchers

For the last several years, Australian wages have experienced an unprecedented slowdown. Nominal wages have been growing at only about 2% per year since 2015. That’s barely half the traditional pace of [...]

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Big Brother is Watching You at Work and Even at Play

Troy Henderson | December 20, 2018

There’s nothing unusual about employers monitoring their employees, in an age-old effort to extract maximum effort and productivity from their paid staff. But new technologies – such as CCTV cameras, GPS locator chips, and computer and social media monitoring – are making this monitoring [...]

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Fighting Inequality Must Start in the Labour Market

Jim Stanford | November 26, 2018

Scientific understanding of the consequences of inequality has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. Thanks to the pioneering work of scholars such as Joseph Stiglitz, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, and Tony Atkinson, we know that persistent social and economic inequality exacts an [...]

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Has contemporary industrialisation taken India down the ‘low road’?

Tom Barnes | November 23, 2018

Globalisation has been shifting manufacturing from richer to poorer countries for decades. In its initial phase, the global shift of labour-intensive products like garments, shoes and toys was criticised as an exercise in the exploitation of low-wage labour—the so-called ‘low road’ of [...]

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Sarah Kaine, Long-term non-market strategies: how platform economy firms create favourable regulatory space

Bill Dunn | May 3, 2018

Sarah Kaine, 'Long-term non-market strategies: how platform economy firms create favourable regulatory space'

The proliferation of platform businesses has presented a regulatory challenge in jurisdictions around the world as start-ups have sought to shape the rules that define the [...]

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  • Manchester University Press Book Series
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  • A Political Economy of Australian Capitalism
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    • JAPE Issues
    • JAPE Young Scholar Award
  • Other Reading Groups
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    • Marxism Reading Group
    • Journal Club
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    • Debating Debtfare States
    • Debating Economic Ideas in Political Time
    • Debating Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India
    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
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    • Debating Social Movements in Latin America
    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
  • Literary Geographies of Political Economy
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