Australia once had extremely high levels of trade union participation yet since the 1970s the
number of union members has been falling dramatically. This book gives the clearest picture …

Gender is a significant—if understudied—theme in the field of Australian industrial relations.
This paper reflects on some of the ways in which the theory of industrial relations—more …

Previous research on union wage effects has underestimated the potential for unions to
raise member wages since the data used do not enable differences across bargaining units …

Australian unions are acting-with varying levels of intensity-to increase wom en's activism.
Are these strategies addressing real problems, in the most appropri ate ways? New …

This paper compares traditional explanations given for women's under‐representation in
union affairs with those given by a group of NESB and Australian‐born female members of a …

This paper examines three interconnected aspects of union transaction identified by a group
of NESB and Australian-born women as having an important impact on their experiences of …