For nearly 12 years from 1996, the Australian government pursued a neoliberal industrial
relations agenda, seeking to break with structures based on collective bargaining and trade …

The use of casual staff, including casual teaching staff, is a common practice in Australian
universities and the numbers of casual staff in the sector has increased significantly in the …

Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient interest. Currently, legal
frameworks in developed countries range from prohibition, through partial legalisation to …

Why are so many Australians working more yet struggling to meet their basic needs? This
account of the plight of low paid workers is a stinging indictment of our society and a threat to …

This article reviews the economy‐wide effects of the Work Choices and Fair Work reforms to
Australia's industrial relations system. Outcomes examined are wages growth and earnings …

We present findings from a study of sex workers recruited in indoor licensed premises in
Victoria. While the study addressed regulation, enforcement and working conditions, we …

How mining companies overcome the problems faced by the fixity of resources and how
they might come to exercise influence in societies which appear to be mostly post-industrial …

Many peak unions are in crisis, their traditional reliance on economic or political exchange
with employers and the state undermined through falling union membership and the …

We investigate the challenges faced by the Australian union movement over the two
decades since the early 1990s, the renewal strategies it employed and their success or …

This special issue of the Journal of Industrial Relations focuses on job quality. Implicitly and
explicitly, job quality features strongly in current debates about work amongst policymakers …