Nearly the year of living dangerously: In the emerging worlds of Australian industrial relations

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 3-23

  Peetz, David ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enterprise bargaining; Executive renumeration; Industrial conflict; Industrial relations Australia; MUA; Productivity growth; State intervention; Union membership; Wages; Women wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042431347     PISSN: 10384111     EISSN: 17447941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/103841119903700202     Document Type: Article

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