This article examines how employee voice arrangements and managerial attitudes to unions
shape employees' perceptions of the industrial relations climate, using data from the 2007 …

One of the outstanding features of contemporary Australian industrial relations has been the
dramatic growth in employer de-collectivization strategies. Four dimensions of employer …

The issue of concession bargaining between employers and unions during the Great
Recession has received little attention in the research literature. This article presents a …

Quantitative research on labour conflicts has offered innumerous insights into the workings
of labour markets. With few exceptions this research is about conflicts, that is, strikes plus …

This article argues that our theoretical understanding of neoliberalism and empirical
understanding of the transformation of industrial relations in Australia since the early 1990s …

Throughout much of the 20th century, Australia (along with New Zealand) was distinctive as
the only advanced market economy with a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration …

Virtually unheard of since the Great Depression, lockouts have reemerged strongly in
Australia and New Zealand just as they have all but disappeared in Germany. The decline of …

Australia and New Zealand represent the 'almost perfect'cases (Wailes 1999) for 'most
similar'comparative studies. Both are settler-capitalist societies colonized by the British, both …

Declining union density in Australia and Britain has focused attention on the need for union
reorganization. This article examines how the development of closed shops in the two …

Union membership and work stoppages due to strikes two indicators of union power and
influence have been in decline in the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand) and the United …