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 article sets out to provide an historical survey of the industry–community relationship in
the Australian mining industry. The mining industry had a vital role in encouraging …

While changes in work and employment practices in the mining sector have been profound,
the literature addressing mining work is somewhat partial as it focuses primarily on the …

Fly-in fly-out (FIFO) work camps are built and organized to ensure that long-distance
rotational workers are fed, housed, and mobilized in sync with the pressing yet …

One of the outstanding features of contemporary Australian industrial relations has been the
dramatic growth in employer de-collectivization strategies. Four dimensions of employer …

This paper outlines a 'substantivist'approach to the regional economy of the Pilbara in
Western Australia, inspired by a constructive reinterpretation of Karl Polanyi's …

The 'spatial fix'has been central to economic geography for nearly 50 years, examining
capitalist development through both stability and change. Harvey's original conceptions of …

The purpose of this article is to identify various ways unions engage with communities and to
understand the obstacles that confront union—community cooperation. Qualitative data was …

Taking its cues from the 'substantivist'economics of K arl P olanyi, the paper retraces a socio‐
economic history of the P ilbara from the pastoral capitalism of the region's initially tenuous …

This thematic and comparative analysis of more than 150 years of unionism in Australasia
explores the similarities and differences in the economic and political contexts in which trade …