Australian Wage Policy: Infancy and Adolescence - Couverture souple

Hancock, Keith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1922064475 ISBN 13 : 9781922064479

Editeur : University of Adelaide Press, 2013

Synopsis

The advent of industrial regulation by tribunal came close to the turn of the century. Wages boards began in Victoria in 1896 and courts of arbitration in 1900.

The first day of the new century was also the first day of the Commonwealth of Australia, endowed with a Parliament that was empowered to institute its chosen models of conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of interstate industrial disputes.

This book is a study of the operation of conciliation and arbitration, especially by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, from the inception of the system until World War II. It is not, however, a general history of conciliation and arbitration.

It does not, for example, deal with the successes and failures of the tribunals in preventing strikes and lockouts; or with the manifold legal issues to which the system gave rise, unless they affected significantly the tribunals' exercise of their power to fix wages and conditions.

Rather, it is about fixing the terms of employment; and it attempts to set the tribunals' performance in an economic context. It is about 'wage policy', if the term is interpreted broadly enough to include both prescribed wages and other factors that affect the cost of labour, including working hours and leave.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Adelaide Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1922064475
• ISBN 13: 9781922064479
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 750
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible