HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES on CURRENT ISSUES beyond Industrial Relations: WorkChoices and the Reshaping of Labour, Class and the Commonwealth

Labour History

Volumn , Issue 90, 2006, Pages 211-220

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DOI: 10.3828/27516122     Document Type: Article

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1. This summary, which is by no means exhaustive, draws on The Hon. Kevin Andrews, 'A New Workplace Relations System: A Plan for a Modern Workplace', press release, 26 May, 2005
2. Australian Government, WorkChoices: A Simpler, Fairer, National Workplace Relations System for Australia, 2005
3. Group of 150 Australian Industrial Relations, Labour Market, and Legal Academics, 'Research Evidence About the Effects of the "Work Choices" Bill', A Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005, November 2005
4. Chris Briggs and John Buchanan, WorkChoices: Overview and Likely Implications, Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training, University of Sydney, 2005
5. Andrew Stewart with Elizabeth Priest, The Work Choices Legislation: An Overview, 2006 at http:/ /www.federationpress.com.au/pdf/WorkChoicesLegislation0206.pdf
6. Chris Briggs and John Buchanan, 'Work, Commerce and the Law', A New Australian Model?', Australian Economic Review, no. 38, 2005, pp. 182-91.
7. Keith Hancock and Sue Richardson 'Economic and Social Effects', in J. Isaac and S. Macintyre (eds), The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, pp. 139-206
8. John Burgess, 'The Federal Arbitration System and Australian Economic Performance', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 46 no. 4, December 2004, pp. 413-29
9. Keith Hancock, 'Wage Determination and the Twentieth Century Australian Economy', in J. Isaac and R. D. Lansbury (eds), Labour Market Deregulation: Rewriting the Rules, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, 2005, pp. 182-90
10. David Peetz, 'Hollow Shells: The Link Between Individual Contracting and Productivity Growth', Journal of Australian Political Economy, no. 56, December 2005, pp. 32-55
11. David Peetz, Brave New Workplace: How Individual Contracts are Changing Our Jobs, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, 2006, especially Ch. 3.
12. The H.R. Nicholls Society remains perhaps the strongest proponent of this line of attack. See the papers from their 20th anniversary conference 'Starting All Over Again', March 2006; www. hrnicholls.com.au.
13. Gordon Anderson, 'Individualising the Employment Relationship in New Zealand: An Analysis of Legal Developments', in S. Deery and R. Mitchell, Employment Relations, Individualisation and Union Exclusion: An International Study, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, 1999, pp. 204-26
14. M. Pittard, 'Victorian Industrial Relations: From Deregulation to Devolution', in D. Nolan (ed.), The Australasian Labour Law Reforms: Australia and New Zealand at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, 1998, pp. 172-89.
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20. Buchanan and Callus, 'Efficiency and Equity at Work'. 8. Flanders, Management and Unions, pp. 90-91
21. Buchanan and Callus/Efficiency and Equity at Work', p. 520.
22. Flanders, Management and Unions, pp. 91-92.
23. A wealth of data has been collected in recent years on the impact of the Workplace Relations Act and its antecedents. Much of this is collected in a special issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy: Whose Choices? Analysis of Current Industrial Relations 'Reforms', no. 56, December 2005.
24. R. Cooper, 'Deregulation of the Labour Market: The Impact Upon Collective Organisation', in J. Isaac and R. Lansbury (eds), Labour Market Deregulation: Rewriting the Rules, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, 2006, pp. 93-106
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28. This argument is developed from a reading of McCallum, 'The Australian Constitution and the Shaping of our Federal and State Labour Laws'. 14.
29. Briggs and Buchanan, 'Work, Commerce and the Law'.
30. J. Peck, Workfare States, The Guilford Press, New York, 2001.
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33. Baird et al, 'Why the States Matter'. 19.
34. Both points are nicely dealt with in J. Isaac, 'The Deregulation of the Australian Labour Market', in J. Isaac and R. D. Lansbury (eds), Labour Market Deregulation: Rewriting the Rules, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, 2005, pp. 1-14.
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39. B. Pocock, The Work-Life Collision, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, 2003, and for an assessment of paid maternity leave
40. M. Baird, 'Orientations to Paid Maternity Leave: Understanding the Australian Debate', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 46, no. 3, September 2004, pp. 259-74.
41. R. Hall, 'Introduction', in Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 48, no. 2, June 2006, forthcoming.
42. J. Howard, 'Workplace Relations Reform: The Next Logical Step', Address to the Sydney Institute, 11 July 2005, downloaded from www.pm.gov.au/news/speeches. 26. Lake 'The Politics of Respectability', p. 130
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