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0000-0001-6071-4193
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2011
DOI: 10.1177/103530461102200207
Abstract: Since 1993 and the removal of the separate award system for the Australian State of Victoria, many Victorian workers have been on five minimum conditions and on pay levels well below that of employees in other States. Despite attempts to rectify the situation (with Victorian common rule awards), issues of coverage and employer compliance remained. The implementation of WorkChoices legislation in 2006 posed a further challenge to Victorian low-paid workers. Our research found that the impact of WorkChoices on the Victorian low-paid has been largely insidious, surfacing primarily as an increased wage-effort ratio, with people working more unpaid hours and at an increased pace. The implications of this are that these hidden effects are more likely to linger, even with the replacement of WorkChoices with the Fair Work Act , 2009. Furthermore, it appears that employer compliance with minimum conditions requires more adequate enforcement by the Federal Government.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-09-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-12-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-01-2020
Abstract: Understanding the role of labour, underplayed in global production networks (GPN) theory, has guided this research on the mining engineering services sector. During the project, the global mining industry entered a downturn. Asking how mining and engineering firms responded to that downturn is a specific variant of wider questions about the place of labour in GPNs and whether labour can shape the GPNs of which it is part. Based on interviews with union officials, workers and management in Australia, the authors show that cost-cutting by global mining companies impacted heavily on the mining engineering sector, pressuring global and local firms. Labour – be it the work process or workers themselves – was central to how firms reacted. The agency of workers and their union was deeply constrained because of the power of companies in GPNs and the nature of the national state and local economies, areas in need of further theoretical development.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-02-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-07-2016
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-02-2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-10-0003
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2021
DOI: 10.1177/02690942211023877
Abstract: Agency and regional development has attracted growing attention. The origins of much thought in this area lie in evolutionary economic geography, sometimes with a nod in the direction of geographical political economy. In recent literature, there has been a stress on agency in general and local entrepreneurship in particular. Stress is laid on good governance, involving an appropriate mix of stakeholders, and more particularly the involvement of local leaders/entrepreneurs and their communities. However, in this article, I want to argue that, firstly, a focus on local entrepreneurship is too limiting and secondly, following on from the first point, the concept of agency at a local level is at best undercooked.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 30-12-2020
Abstract: Before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted onto the world stage, a new narrative was apparently beginning to emerge about the impact of i4.0 and new technologies in general, and three-dimensional printing in particular, on the future of work and employment. This was to have particular geographical implications for the manufacturing sector in particular. Proponents of i4.0 also suggested that this process, particularly in manufacturing, would promote the re-emergence of patterns of clustering. Developments in advanced manufacturing, particularly three-dimensional printing, would accelerate and reinforce these tendencies. This article looks at the role that three-dimensional printing is supposed to play in the new world, and in particular, critically evaluates its role in reinforcing the trend towards deglobalisation on the one hand, and, on the other, new clusters of manufacturing industry. JEL code: O33
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-12-2018
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-02-2010
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 26-02-2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 28-05-2021
DOI: 10.1177/10353046211014755
Abstract: This article critically analyses the opportunities for Australia to revitalise its strategically important manufacturing sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It considers Australia’s industry policy options on the basis of both advances in the theory of industrial policy and recent policy proposals in the Australian context. It draws on recent work from The Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work examining the prospects for Australian manufacturing renewal in a post-COVID-19 economy, together with other recent work in political economy, economic geography and labour process theory critically evaluating the Fourth Industrial Revolution (i4.0) and its implications for the Australian economy. The aim of the article is to contribute to and further develop the debate about the future of government intervention in manufacturing and industry policy in Australia. Crucially, the argument links the future development of Australian manufacturing with a focus on renewable energy. JEL Codes: L50 L52 L78 O10 O13: O25 O44 P18 Q42
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-08-2022
Abstract: This article explores the utility of applying the European policy of smart specialisation to tackle spatial ergence in the Australian context. Using a geographical political economy approach and considering a growing literature on innovation in peripheral places, the work explores how smart specialisation is applied in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, a coal‐dependent non‐metropolitan industrial enclave in the Gippsland region. Analysis of the case suggests that market‐based growth processes envisaged by the architects of innovation‐based regional policies such as smart specialisation have been unable to spur development in Australia’s disadvantaged non‐metropolitan regions. On the contrary, without more careful appreciation of local contexts, such policies will lead to further spatial ergence and exacerbate isions between urban and regional communities.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2013
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1177/103530461202300109
Abstract: Neoliberal policies of industrial relations decentralisation and privatisation have transformed the economic landscape of Australia in the last 20 years. The primary objective of these policies has been to enhance wealth and prosperity by improving productivity and flexibility of the workforce and competition and accountability in the market. Yet the evidence suggests that precarious workers are not benefiting from this increased prosperity, indeed they suffer by comparison with all other workers. Cleaners are a subset of precarious workers who have been hard hit by the dual impacts of labour market decentralisation and privatisation. This study finds quantitative evidence of an increasing gap in earnings between cleaners and other workers in Australia since the onset of workplace relations decentralisation and the proliferation of privatisation in the mid 1990s. We locate our argument in recent debates about the nature of variegated neoliberalism, the emergence of the networked economy, and the implications of these developments for the nature of work and employment.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-07-2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Universidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA)
Date: 16-08-2021
DOI: 10.11606/0103-2070.TS.2021.183007
Abstract: We detail how the world’s two largest engineering machinery firms, Japan’s Komatsu and the us’s Caterpillar, actively managed geographical concerns to become global actors. We argue that their globalization was not a teleological given but had to be proactively made. Both the state and organized labor played significant roles in shaping their geographical evolutions, as did their efforts to outmaneuver each other spatially. Their globalization, then, was part of a broader spatial politics under capitalism.
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-11-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-12-2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2023
DOI: 10.1017/ELR.2023.32
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2020
Abstract: This discussion paper by a group of scholars across the fields of health, economics and labour relations argues that COVID-19 is an unprecedented humanitarian crisis from which there can be no return to the ‘old normal’. The pandemic’s disastrous worldwide health impacts have been exacerbated by, and have compounded, the unsustainability of economic globalisation based on the neoliberal dismantling of state capabilities in favour of markets. Flow-on economic impacts have simultaneously created major supply and demand disruptions, and highlighted the growing within-country inequalities and precarity generated by neoliberal regimes of labour market regulation. Taking an Australian and international perspective, we examine these economic and labour market impacts, paying particular attention to differential impacts on First Nations people, developing countries, women, immigrants and young people. Evaluating policy responses in a political climate of national and international leadership very different from those in which major twentieth century crises were addressed, we argue the need for a national and international conversation to develop a new pathway out of crisis.
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