Voice and agency: workers with a disability and trade unionism
In: Labour & industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 118-131
ISSN: 2325-5676
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In: Labour & industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 118-131
ISSN: 2325-5676
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 24, Heft 62, S. 469-471
ISSN: 1465-3303
In: Labour & industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 227-236
ISSN: 2325-5676
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 22, Heft 54, S. 369-384
ISSN: 1465-3303
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 90, S. 225
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 89, S. 125
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Labour & industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 59-74
ISSN: 2325-5676
In: Journal of labor research, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 175-178
ISSN: 1936-4768
Tells the story of the Australian superannuation revolution led by trade unions in the 1980s. After a series of hard-fought industrial campaigns, an enormous financial industry was created, involving hundreds of thousands of employers and covering millions of fund members. From having one of the worst retirement savings systems in the developed world, in three decades Australia had one of the best. now the funds held in Australian superannuation accounts exceed the entire market capitalization of all the companies on the Australian Stock Exchange. Drawing on interview with the key players and extensive archival research, this book is the first systematic history of the unique Australian system of industry superannuation
The first major history of Australia's unique and world-leading system of industry superannuation.
In: Working USA: the journal of labor & society, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 505-523
ISSN: 1743-4580
Cultural connections with caring and femininity have long been associated with the nursing profession, with mainstream media representations often reinforcing stereotypical depictions of nurses. Although more recent mainstream media portrayals increasingly depict nurses as strong, assertive professionals, little research has been conducted into films made by nurses. When nurses take on the filmmaking task, different outcomes are produced, and when their trade union is involved, unionist filmmaking becomes an organizing strategy. This qualitative study, using content and document analysis and interviews, analyzes a selection of films made by, for, and about Australian unionized nurses. We examine a generation of nurse‐made films from the mid‐1980s to the New South Wales Nurses Association's recent innovative efforts. We argue that these films' production and reception not only shifts our understanding about how these (primarily women) workers are represented and represented as organized workers, but also offer new organizing opportunities for their union. We explore the relationships among film, history, gender, and trade unionism, and consider how unions can use film as a mobilizing tool.
In: Economic and industrial democracy, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 239-257
ISSN: 1461-7099
In the past two decades, trade unions have sought to counter membership decline, initially through a focus on organizing. More recently the union renewal project has prompted a re-examination of whether unions can use different types of inter-union collaboration to build power for workers and the movement. This article examines two examples of such inter-union collaboration, the Transport Unions Federation and the Australian Workers' Union–Maritime Union of Australia Offshore Alliance. The development of these organizational relationships is important to the trade union movement in Australia and internationally as examples of new forms of external solidarity.
In: Labour & industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 1-8
ISSN: 2325-5676
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 88, S. 254
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Labour & industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 165-184
ISSN: 2325-5676