Evolving Employment Relations: Industry Studies from Australia

This is a new title by editing authors Peter Waring and Mark Bray, both from the University of Newcastle. Evolving Employment Relations highlights the development of the Australian Industrial Relations environment, up until the recent legislative changes in 2006. Written by a team of leading experts in their respective industries, Evolving Employment Relations contains authentic industry studies from a wide range of sectors, including manufacturing, mining and services.

Given the current uncertainty and debate around the new changes to the Workplace Relations Act, Peter Waring and Mark Bray provide direction and interpretation on the application of legislative change to these industries. Wrapped around these studies are inintroductorynd concluding chapters that set these studies wiwithinhe context of the current Australian landscape. Evolving Employment Relations provides a good background to these recent changes, discussion and critical analysis of the current environment.