| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 731 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-722) and index. |
| Contents |
Inception and setting -- Higgins era 1907-1921 -- Setting -- Basic wage 1907-1921 -- Broadening the scope of wage policy -- Caution and restraint 1921-1929 -- Setting -- Powers era -- New regime -- Wage policy in Depression and recovery 1929-1939 -- Setting -- Wage policy and the onset of Depression -- Depths of the Depression -- Basic wage in the recovery -- Other aspects of wage policy 1935-1939 -- Economic critique -- Economics of wage regulation. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.
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Australia. Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. |
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Wages -- Australia.
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Wages. |
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Australia. |
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Wages -- Australia -- History.
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History. |
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Industrial relations -- Australia.
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Industrial relations. |
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Arbitration, Industrial -- Australia -- History.
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Arbitration, Industrial. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
University of Adelaide Press.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (SUA)V2114336 |
| ISBN |
9781922064462 (electronic book) |
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1922064467 (electronic book) |
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9781922064479 |
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1922064475 |
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