ANALYSING THE NATURE and effects of labour's relationship to the welfare state has been a vexed enterprise. On the one hand, labour has long been suspicious of the welfare state as a weapon to undermine working-class radicalism. On the other hand, labour has sought to support the welfare state as a means of easing the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation. This ambivalence, in part, reflect...

This article explores the most significant historic industrial dispute in Ireland’s film industry, during making of UK Of Human Bondage early 1960s. The conflict produced a prolonged standoff between Irish trade unions and their much larger British counterparts, impacting on viability Ardmore Studios, established 1957. Drawing previously unexplored archival sources, this account reveals delicat...

Proposals for the reform of labour legislation have been central to the reform agenda of international financial institutions, most particularly the World Bank, and have been pressed particularly on the governments of countries which formerly have had socialist or social democratic forms of labour market regulation. This reform agenda is based on a neo-liberal conception of the labour market, a...

This paper examines the effectiveness of recent New Zealand legislation in addressing issues of workplace disputes, with a particular focus on the role of unions. One of the most crucial aspects of the Employment Relations Act, introduced by the new Labour government in 2000, was its provision for mediation services to employers and employees. This initiative was explicitly intended to provide ...

Abstract Automation creates winners and losers. By examining establishment-level panel data, we explore how labour unions affect labor adjustment associated with automation. Although automation can increase new hires of junior unskilled production workers, the presence neutralizes these effects. The results suggest that have incentives to protect incumbent workers negatively affected by

In the academic and political debate about land grabbing agroindustrial transformations in neoliberal food regime effects on labour are neglected. response to this gap, paper focuses labour, unions, their bargaining power struggles these transformation processes. Empirically, I analyse of sugarcane sector state São Paulo between 2002 2016 by applying resource approach. The analysis shows that p...

Studies of the wage effects of unions in South Africa have been largely concerned with the impact of union membership on the wages of African and White male workers. Consistent with findings in the international literature, these studies have concluded that unions compress the distribution of wages in South Africa, and, more specifically, that racial inequality is lower in the union sector comp...

In the United States, right‐to‐work (RTW) laws impose open shop on labour unions. I test whether RTW affects frequency and outcomes of union representation petitions. Quasi‐experimental tests reveal no association between law volume certification petitions filed that fewer are withdrawn under RTW. Thus, unions do not appear to retreat from new member organizing law. Moreover, correlates with a ...

In this paper we provide an account of Australian immigration in the late twentieth century focusing on labour market and industrial relations issues. The paper chronicles the changing immigration policy framework, from one premised on exclusion to one designed primarily to serve the needs of the domestic labour market. Since 1997 the majority of settlers arrived under the skills category of th...