Australia at Work : The Benchmark Report 2007

Lowering of Standards Report, From Awards to Work Choices in Retail and Hospitality Collective Agreements. 2007

WIRS on the Eve of Work Choices

A Critique of the Productivity Commission's Review of Automotive Assistance 2002

You Value What You Pay For 2002

Stop Telling us to Cope: NSW nurses explain why they are leaving the profession 2002

10th Annual Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture - Justice Michael Kirby's presentation 2002

The Shape of Things to Come

Australia at Work: The Benchmark Report
Australia at Work is a five year study of 8,343 participants in the Australian labour market which will assess the impacts of these changes and their perceptions of working life. It has been funded by the Australian Research Council and a network of unions coordinated by Unions NSW.

Australia at Work: The Benchmark Report provides an overview of results from the first survey that gathered data on working conditions in March 2006 (before the implementation of the WorkChoices legislation) and 2007.
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Lowering of Standards Report, From Awards to Work Choices in Retail and Hospitality Collective Agreements.
A synthesis report by Justine Evesson, John Buchanan, Larissa Bamberry, Betty Frino, Damian Oliver. 2007
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WIRS on the Eve of Work Choices
A report on a survey of employers in Queensland, NSW and Victoria. Prepared for the Queensland Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, NSW Office of Industrial Relations and Industrial Relations Victoria
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A Critique of the Productivity Commission's Review of Automotive Assistance
The critique finds that the recent Productivity Commission Report on automotive assistance gives undue weight to certain stereotypes that have little basis in fact.
Written by John Buchanan, Chris Briggs and Chris Wright, October 2002
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The Struggle for Time
A review of extended shifts in the Tasmanian mining industry - overview report.
Written by Kathryn Heiler.
September 2002
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Making Capitals Tick
This paper puts current developments in their historic context. It considers first the pressure on time that stem from the needs of capital and next the experiences of labour under an accelerating and intensifying work-time regiment. Written by Humphrey McQueen for WRC's "Working Time Today Conference" 16 August 2002.
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You Value What You Pay For
In a new Discussion Paper prepared for the Dusseldorp Skills Forum, Richard Hall, John Buchanan and Gillian Considine examine Australia's record of funding education, knowledge and training in the era of the knowledge economy and suggest options for enhancing the contribution of employers. June 2002
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Stop Telling us to Cope: NSW nurses explain why they are leaving the profession
In a report commissioned by the NSW Nurses Association, Dr John Buchanan and Gillian Considine explain how the new hospital management systems, in combination with chronic under-funding, have transformed the nature of nursing work. The current crisis in the NSW health system with attracting and retaining nurses is set to worsen if the obsessive approach to 'cost control' in public hospitals continues. May 2002
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10th Annual Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture - Justice Michael Kirby's presentation
Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, gave a public lecture at the University of Sydney on Human Rights and Industrial Relations in April 2002
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The Shape of Things to Come, Dr Chris Briggs
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