The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and ArbitrationJoseph Ezra Isaac, Stuart Macintyre 2004 is the centenary of the Australian federal industrial system, and, in recognition of this landmark anniversary, Stuart Macintyre and Joseph Isaac have edited a volume recounting its first 100 years. The Commonwealth of Australia was federated in 1901. Only three short years later, the Federal Government established a court system to arbitrate over industrial disputes in a country that already had a history of half a century of organized labor. |
Contents
ELUSIVE MIDDLE GROUND A POLITICAL HISTORY | 17 |
ARBITRATION IN ACTION | 55 |
THE LAW OF CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION | 98 |
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS | 139 |
JUSTICE AND EQUITY WOMEN AND INDIGENOUS WORKERS | 207 |
EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATIONS AND COMPULSORY ARBITRATION | 241 |
UNIONS AND ARBITRATION | 275 |
MANAGING INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT | 316 |
MAIN TRIBUNAL CHANGES | 355 |
MEMBERSHIP | 356 |
THE OBJECTS OF THE ACT | 367 |
NOTES | 373 |
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ACTU agreements AIRC Alfred Deakin amendments appointed Arbitration Commission Arbitration Court arbitration system Association Australian Industrial Relations Australian Workplace Agreements award wages basic wage Bob Hawke CCEA cent centralised changes claims Clarrie O'Shea collective bargaining Commissioners Commonwealth Court compulsory arbitration Conciliation and Arbitration conflict Constitution Court of Conciliation days lost Deakin decision economic effect employment enterprise bargaining equal pay federal awards federal tribunal Hancock Higgins High Court Hughes incomes policy Indigenous industrial action industrial disputes Industrial Relations Industrial Relations Commission inflation Isaac Journal of Industrial jurisdiction Kirby Labor government labour market legislation major male Mary Gaudron matter Melbourne ment Metal Trades minimum National Wage organisations over-award parliament parties period political principles productivity Queensland rates real wages regulation role social South Wales strikes Sydney tion trade union Victoria wage determination wage increases wage indexation wage justice wage policy women Workplace Relations Act
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Page vii - Conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State.
Page 6 - ... there is a dictate of nature more imperious and more ancient than any bargain between man and man, that the remuneration must be enough to support the wage-earner in reasonable and frugal comfort.