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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Human Geography | Economic Geography | Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) | Business and Management | Migration | Economic Geography | Urban Policy | Human Resources Management | Human Resources Management | Urban And Regional Studies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Industry Policy | Changing work patterns | Employment Patterns and Change | Microeconomic issues not elsewhere classified | Industry policy | Economic Growth | Macroeconomics not elsewhere classified | Evaluation of Health Outcomes | Professions and Professionalisation | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Global climate change adaptation measures |
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De-industrialisation, financialisation and Australia's macro-economic trap
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 17-10-2014
DOI: 10.1093/CJRES/RSU020
Genetic and lipidomic analyses suggest that Nostoc punctiforme, a plant-symbiotic cyanobacterium, does not produce sphingolipids
Publisher: Microbiology Society
Date: 25-01-2022
Abstract: Sphingolipids, a class of amino-alcohol-based lipids, are well characterized in eukaryotes and in some anaerobic bacteria. However, the only sphingolipids so far identified in cyanobacteria are two ceramides (i.e. , an acetylsphingomyelin and a cerebroside), both based on unbranched, long-chain base (LCB) sphingolipids in Scytonema julianum and Moorea producens , respectively. The first step in de novo sphingolipid biosynthesis is the condensation of l -serine with palmitoyl-CoA to produce 3-keto-diyhydrosphingosine (KDS). This reaction is catalyzed by serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT), which belongs to a small family of pyridoxal phosphate-dependent α-oxoamine synthase (AOS) enzymes. Based on sequence similarity to molecularly characterized bacterial SPT peptides, we identified a putative SPT (Npun_R3567) from the model nitrogen-fixing, plant-symbiotic cyanobacterium, Nostoc punctiforme strain PCC 73102 (ATCC 29133). Gene expression analysis revealed that Npun_R3567 is induced during late-stage diazotrophic growth in N. punctiforme . However, Npun_R3567 could not produce the SPT reaction product, 3-keto-diyhydrosphingosine (KDS), when heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli . This agreed with a sphingolipidomic analysis of N. punctiforme cells, which revealed that no LCBs or ceramides were present. To gain a better understanding of Npun_R3567, we inferred the phylogenetic position of Npun_R3567 relative to other bacterial AOS peptides. Rather than clustering with other bacterial SPTs, Npun_R3567 and the other cyanobacterial BioF homologues formed a separate, monophyletic group. Given that N. punctiforme does not appear to possess any other gene encoding an AOS enzyme, it is altogether unlikely that N. punctiforme is capable of synthesizing sphingolipids. In the context of cross-kingdom symbiosis signalling in which sphingolipids are emerging as important regulators, it appears unlikely that sphingolipids from N. punctiforme play a regulatory role during its symbiotic association with plants.
An argument with neoliberalism: Australia's place in a global imaginary
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-06-2014
Abstract: This article argues that the uncritical application of the lens of neoliberalism closes off opportunities for more rigorous analysis of actually existing socio-economic change. We ask whether Australia’s developmental trajectory over the last three decades can be described as neoliberalization and whether the outcome is a variety of neoliberalism. Instead of stitching together a story about variegated neoliberalism, we find an alternative narrative based around the notion of a developmental project more compelling. We document the spatial and political realities that have inhibited the roll-out of neoliberal ideas and practices in the Australian context. We think that instead of expanding the varieties of variegated neoliberalism to accommodate all manner of events and processes in all sorts of places, our task should be to recognize those instances where social, political, cultural or economic changes settle capitalism’s contradictions in ways that erge from neoliberal frameworks and expectations. Our central point is that the role of academic research is to explain the lived world and to develop abstractions to aid that explanation, rather than to design an abstraction (neoliberalism) and then fit the lived world to its contours.
Casual Employment and Employer Strategy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-1999
Geographies of job quality
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 18-08-2022
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198749790.013.10
Abstract: For geographers, issues of job quality are considered in conjunction with wider questions of how people live in households and communities. This binds questions about the quality of jobs to wider questions about where, why and who holds which jobs. After explaining this perspective, the chapter introduces five areas of geographical research in which questions of job quality are central: regional polarization global production networks global care chains platforms and the gig economy and the potentials of labour agency. The conclusion emphasizes that job quality depends on the job, the worker and context, which, like all labour market processes, are inherently spatial and unavoidably place based.
Failure and strategic projects: Australia’s Asia–Pacific vision
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2009
Critical events and labour mobility: Relocations in the wake of the ansett airlines collapse
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-08-2009
The urban and regional impacts of plant closures: new methods and perspectives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2019
Are labour markets necessarily 'Local'? Spatiality, segmentation and scale
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-09-2008
Abstract: This paper draws on recent debates about scale to approach the geography of labour markets from a dynamic perspective sensitive to the spatiality and scale of labour market restructuring. Its exploration of labour market reconfigurations after the collapse of a major firm (Ansett Airlines) raises questions about geography's faith in the inherently `local' constitution of labour markets. Through an examination of the job reallocation process after redundancy, the paper suggests that multiple labour markets use and articulate scale in different ways. It argues that labour market rescaling processes are enacted at the critical moment of recruitment, where social networks, personal aspirations and employer preferences combine to shape workers' destinations.
Trade fairs in peripheral places: Towards a political economy of Australian fashion events
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-05-2015
The politicization of research methods, illustrated in the case of plant closures
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 22-04-2020
Abstract: This paper contributes to building better methods in economic geography by examining the coevolution of theory, methodology, and should read methodology, and the practice of research methods with the policy context. The paper suggests that debates about how economic geography defines its theoretical and methodological boundaries have not been sufficiently cognizant of the effects of policy engagement. It posits that the politicized contemporary context is aligning research practices to policy constituencies, reshaping research questions, altering the criteria of research validity, increasing the ision between qualitative and quantitative approaches, and solidifying isions between different sub-branches of the discipline. This process is illustrated by way of a genealogy of studies of plant closures. The conclusion links these changes to questions about the future of the discipline.
The Dialectics of Community and Government
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 30-11-2019
The Regional Dimensions of the ‘Transition to a Low-carbon Economy’: The Case of Australia's Latrobe Valley
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-08-2011
Participation in Labour Adjustment Assistance: The Regional State and Local Agency
Publisher: Figshare
Date: 2017
Gentrification and Displacement: The Effects of a Housing Crisis on Melbourne's Low-Income Residents
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-01-2012
M
elbourne
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-04-2019
DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.EURS0196
Abstract: Melbourne is a cosmopolitan and multicultural city in the southeastern state of Victoria, Australia. The city has grown rapidly in recent years, with accelerated migration and growth in the number of international students studying in the city, producing challenges for housing, liveability, and employment. The recent closure of automobile manufacturing plants is testing the city's resilience.
Manufacturing and labor
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 24-04-2015
The Embeddedness of Global Production Networks: The Impact of Crisis in Fiji's Garment Export Sector
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2006
DOI: 10.1068/A37192
Abstract: In this paper the author explores how changing geopolitical conditions reconfigure network embeddedness and theorises the conditions of network disconnection and transformation. Through a case study of the changes in interfirm relationships within the Fiji–Australia garment-production network after Fiji's 2000 political coup d'état, the author develops a relational and dynamic view of embeddedness, highlighting its multifaceted and multiscalar character and emphasising the interrelationships between embeddedness, trust, and power.
Greensill Capital and the securitisation of supply chain financing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-07-2023
Developing gelatin–starch blends for use as capsule materials
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.CARBPOL.2012.09.048
Abstract: Blends of gelatin with up to 50% hydroxypropylated high amylose (80%) corn starch were developed as capsule materials. Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) was used as both a plasticizer and a compatibilizer in the blends. In order to prepare hard capsules for pharmaceutical applications using the well-established method of dipping stainless steel mold pins into solution, solutions with higher solids concentrations (up to 30%) were developed. The solutions, films and capsules of the different gelatin-starch blends were characterized by viscosity, transparency, tensile testing, water contact angle and SEM. The linear microstructure of the high amylose starch, and the flexible and more hydrophilic hydroxylpropylene groups grafted onto the starch improved the compatibility between the gelatin and starch. SEM revealed a continuous phase of gelatin on the surface of films from all blends. The water contact angle of pure gelatin and the different blends were similar, indicating a continuous phase of gelatin. By optimizing temperature and incubation time to control viscosity, capsules of various blends were successfully developed. PEG increased the transparency and toughness of the various blends.
Places that matter: Australia’s crisis intervention framework and voter response
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-2021
Abstract: This article contributes to understandings of geographies of discontent by focusing on the way that political frameworks condition the demand for fringe or protest voting. It discusses how Australia’s federal political framework, preferential voting system and timely crisis intervention policies combine to reduce the demand for fringe voting. The local effects of this system are illustrated via an examination of voting patterns in two disadvantaged and deindustrialising locations in the State of Victoria. The conclusion suggests that European jurisdictions have much to learn from the Australian ex le.
Clothing outwork: Union strategy, labour regulation and labour market restructuring
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-1999
DOI: 10.1177/002218569904100201
Abstract: On 12 March 1998 the Australian Industrial Relations Commission found that tbe clauses of the Clothing Trades Award dealing with the regulation of outwork in the clothing industry were allowable in their entirety under section 89A2(t) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996. This decision preserves the mechanisms that will enable the award to be enforced according to the industry's Homeworker Code of Practice. This paper describes the union's community action c aign against unregu lated clothing outwork, a c aign that bas successfully focused public attention on the need to establish safeguards for outworker employment at a time when employee protection more generally is under threat. It attributes tbe progress in regulating outwork to the union's public awareness c aign and its uneven impact on the competitive position of employers, to a resultant change in employer attitudes and strategies, and to the government's desire to quieten opposition to its industrial relations agenda.
Not so 'smart'? An Australian experiment in smart specialisation
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.
Just transition? Strategic framing and the challenges facing coal dependent communities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-06-2019
Abstract: Policies designed to hasten the closure of high-emissions coal-fired power stations routinely include reference to the need for a ‘just’ transition in affected communities. But the detail of what a just transition might entail is rarely specified. This article examines how policy interventions in Australia in 2012–2013, as part of the Gillard government’s Clean Energy Future package, approached the problem of a just transition in the case of Victoria’s coal dependent Latrobe Valley. It describes how policymakers framed the issue as transition, adopted a regional scaling, and expanded the territorial arena of policy action. A stakeholder-based multilevel governance committee shrouded this top-down decision-making from public scrutiny. These moves made it possible to conjure a narrative of benign transition governed by market processes. The paper explains how these strategic framings sidelined local interests, misrepresented the issues, exacerbated local disempowerment, and enabled the redirection of re-distributional funding to communities that were not directly affected by the impending closure of coal-fired power stations. The perceived injustice of this process exposes the limitations of climate policy-related strategic issue, scale and place framing.
Consuming the City: Public Fashion Festivals and the Participatory Economies of Urban Spaces in Melbourne, Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-04-2013
Abstract: This paper examines how the conduct of a local festival of fashion retailing—the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival—reinvigorates the commodity fair format of older times. The paper takes a longitudinal view of the festival’s evolution and draws on Lefebvre’s spatiology, complemented by Terranova’s approach to the participatory economy, to explore how it produces monetary value as it produces space. The discussion highlights the contradictory nature of event processes, arguing that they reinforce dominant representations of the city and extend retailers’ reach into public space, but at the same time undermine spaces of business activity. The paper suggests that the event’s use of participatory economies of cultural mobilisation are similar to the tactics of social movement activism, but that in this context mobilisation works to support the value-capturing strategies of local retailers and to reinscribe urban spaces as spaces of consumption.
Plant closures in Australia’s automotive industry: continuity and change
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-01-2022
Evidence in the Networked Governance of Regional Decarbonisation: A Critical Appraisal
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-03-2018
Regulating Clothing Outwork: A Sceptic's View
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2007
Abstract: By applying the strategies of international anti-sweatshop c aigns to the Australian context, recent regulations governing home-based clothing production hold retailers responsible for policing the wages and employment conditions of clothing outworkers who manufacture clothing on their behalf. This article argues that the new approach oversimplifies the regulatory challenge by assuming (1) that Australian clothing production is organized in a hierarchical ‘buyer-led’ linear structure in which core retail firms have the capacity to control their suppliers’ behaviour (2) that firms act as unitary moral agents and, (3) that interventions imported from other times and places are applicable to the contemporary Australian context. After considering some alternative regulatory approaches, the article concludes that the new regulatory strategy effectively privatizes responsibility for labour market conditions - a development that cries out for further debate.
Beyond Global Production Networks: Australian fashion week's trans-sectoral synergies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2008
Strategy and the contested politics of scale: Air transportation in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-02-2007
Fast Parallels? Contesting Mobile Policy Technologies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2017
Special Configurations of Multi-finger Multi- freedom Grippers — A Kinematic Study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-1991
DOI: 10.1177/027836499101000204
Abstract: Screw theory is used to establish the general kinematic prin ciples offully-in-series and fully-in-parallel devices. Through screw theory, we show that a workpiece grasped by a fully-in- series manipulator can only lose freedom while a workpiece grasped by a fully-in-parallel manipulator can only gain freedom. Multi-finger multi-freedom grippers or robot hands use a mixture of in-parallel and serial actuation, and so a workpiece grasped by such a device can both gain and lose freedom. These linkages belong to a class called composite serial/in-parallel manipulators. Using the well-established concepts of screw systems and reciprocity, we identify the general criteria that govern the gain and loss of workpiece freedoms. We illustrate how these gains and losses of work piece freedom arise, by considering the Stanford/JPL hand.
Shifting spatialities of power: The case of Australasian aviation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2009
Left-behind neighbourhoods in old industrial regions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2023
Power and scale: The shifting geography of industrial relations law in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-12-2007
The molecular basis of quantitative variation in foliar secondary metabolites in Eucalyptus globulus
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-05-2011
DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-8137.2011.03769.X
Abstract: Eucalyptus is characterized by high foliar concentrations of plant secondary metabolites with marked qualitative and quantitative variation within a single species. Secondary metabolites in eucalypts are important mediators of a erse community of herbivores. We used a candidate gene approach to investigate genetic associations between 195 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 24 candidate genes and 33 traits related to secondary metabolites in the Tasmanian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus). We discovered 37 significant associations (false discovery rate (FDR) Q < 0.05) across 11 candidate genes and 19 traits. The effects of SNPs on phenotypic variation were within the expected range (0.018 < r(2) < 0.061) for forest trees. Whereas most marker effects were nonadditive, two alleles from two consecutive genes in the methylerythritol phosphate pathway (MEP) showed additive effects. This study successfully links allelic variants to ecologically important phenotypes which can have a large impact on the entire community. It is one of very few studies to identify the genetic variants of a foundation tree that influences ecosystem function.
Regional assets and value capture trajectories: the growth and demise of an Australian automotive supplier
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-10-0003
Discrimination, labour markets and the labour market prospects of older workers: What can a legal case teach us?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2007
Abstract: As governments become increasingly concerned about the fiscal implications of the ageing population, labour market policies have sought to encourage mature workers to remain in the labour force. The `human capital' discourses motivating these policies rest on the assumption that older workers armed with motivation and vocational skills will be able to return to fulfilling work. This article uses the post-redundancy recruitment experiences of former Ansett Airlines flight attendants to develop a critique of these expectations. It suggests that policies to increase older workers' labour market participation will not succeed while persistent socially constructed age- and gender-typing shape labour demand. The conclusion argues for policies sensitive to the institutional structures that shape employer preferences, the competitive rationality of discriminatory practices, and the irresolvable tension between workers' human rights and employers' property rights.
What is to be done? Reflections on Brian Palmer’s ‘Approaching Working-Class History as Struggle’
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-06-2018
Creativity or costs? Questioning New Zealand's fashion success: A methodological intervention
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 16-09-2014
DOI: 10.1093/JEG/LBT028
Actually existing political economies
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-06-2014
Abstract: In this response, we are prompted by the commentaries to discuss three issues: the need to be wary of malleability in the definitions of keywords like neoliberalism the importance in economic geography of close study of the national scale and the relationships among state policies, economies, societies and national developmental trajectories and the concern we have about the assumed political utility of the idea of neoliberalism now that its use is widespread. We conclude by reiterating our scepticism that all manner of changes are capable of being enrolled as aspects of ‘variegated’ neoliberalism. Our argument is that the important detail of political–economic change is too often overlooked as a direct consequence.
State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-05-2023
Financial stress and the long-term outcomes of job loss
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2012
Abstract: This article examines the longer-term effects of job loss for middle income households in Australia. Specifically, it analyses the experiences of workers who lost their jobs in the 2001 collapse of an Australian airline, Ansett Airlines. Since Ansett employees’ savings were tied up in the Ansett corporate structure, its workers faced the double jeopardy of losing both their careers and their savings. The article illuminates the role of financial losses in overall outcomes and argues that an adequate understanding of post-redundancy experiences must incorporate employment, wellbeing and financial effects. The article concludes that employment policies pay insufficient attention to the financial risks that accompany job loss. To reduce the adverse impacts of job loss for middle-income households, institutional frameworks need to address the interactions among labour markets, financial markets and housing markets.
Fashion as viscous knowledge: Fashion's role in shaping trans-national garment production
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-10-2007
DOI: 10.1093/JEG/LBL015
Globalisation, marketisation and the transformation of Australia’s electricity sector
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-10-2017
De facto informality? Rethinking the experience of women in the formally regulated workplace
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2018
Accounting for Skill Shortages? Migration and the Australian Labour Market
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-12-2015
DOI: 10.1002/PSP.1997
Becoming Precarious? Precarious Work and Life Trajectories After Retrenchment
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-01-2020
Abstract: Much of the large literature on precarious work has largely tended to assume that precarity is shaped by job quality: that precarious work leads to precarious lives. This paper adds to the literature by questioning this line of causality and highlighting the broader range of influences shaping the lives of older workers who enter precarious work after retrenchment from secure, long-term careers. Drawing on a study of Australia’s automotive manufacturing industry, which closed in 2017, this article finds that for older retrenched workers, exposure to precarious employment sharpened life precarity for some but did not lead to precarious lives for others. Instead of a uniform transition from security to precarity, these workers’ life trajectories erged depending on their household-scale financial security. Key issues influencing the likelihood of older workers’ lives becoming precarious were enterprise benefits and asset wealth accumulated through their previous careers.
Commentary: Alice Bryer’s politics of value creation
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-07-2011
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