Active labor market programs (ALMPs) are used to reduce the risk of unemployment and to
increase the earnings capacity of workers. Particular interventions include employment …

This paper explores the possibility of using diachronic case study comparisons to shed light
on continuity and change in policy interventions to manage plant closures. It compares the …

Work on large-scale plant closures has provided a rich vein of scholarship and academic
debate. This paper articulates a new set of methods and concepts for understanding how …

The seemingly inexorable decline of manufacturing in Australia is typically explained by firm-
level competitiveness, especially labour costs, the challenges posed by a peripheral …

" Since the early 1980s, Australian governments have pursued policies of'international
competitiveness' that combine the removal of tariffs and other industry protection with …

This paper provides an overview of the actors engaged in bringing clothing and clothing-
related textiles to Australia's consumer markets. It considers the consumer market, garment …

This paper questions the proposition that creativity-led cultural industries can prosper in
peripheral locations. To that end, it examines the apparent success of New Zealand's …

Beginning in the mid 1980s, the Australian government cut protection of the Australian
textile, clothing, and footwear sector, while the global TCF industry was embracing a new …

Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by
economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has …

Industrial tribunals have been considering redundancy benefits for older workers, workers
with long job tenure and casual workers (the latter group presently having no access to …