The Struggle For Australian Industrial Relations

by Braham Dabscheck

This book describes and analyzes what occurred in Australian industrial relations in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During this period Australia moved away from a centralized to an increasingly decentralized system of industrial relations regulation. Three major isues have been associated
with this a diminution in the prominent role played by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, the development and adoption of different models of enterprise bargaining, and a massive campaign of amalgamations which has rationalized the structure of Australian unions.

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 1995