Voices at work : continuity and change in the common law world
Title By: Bogg, Alan [Edited by] | Novitz, Tonia [Edited by]
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, c2014.Description: xxxiii, 481 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780199683130Subject(s): Labor laws and legislation -- English-speaking countries | Industrial relations -- English-speaking countriesItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 344.01 VO IC (Browse shelf) | Available | T0032397 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The purposes and techniques of voice: Prospects for continuity and change / Alan Bogg and Tonia Novitz -- 'Women's voice' and equal pay: Judicial regard for the gendering of collective bargaining / L. J. B. Hayes -- Low-paid care work, bargaining, and employee voice in Australia / Rae Cooper -- Migrant workers and labour movements in the US and UK / Janice Fine -- Indigenous voices at work / Paul Roth -- "Half a person": A legal perspective on organizing and representing "non-standard" workers / A. C. L. Davies -- Freedom of association and the right to contest: Getting back to basics / Alan Bogg and Cynthia Estlund -- Promoting worker voice through good faith bargaining laws: the Canadian and Australian experience / Anthony Forsyth and Sara Slinn -- The good-faith obligation: an effective model for promoting voice? / Gordon Anderson and Pam Nuttall -- Democratic theory and voices at work / Virginia Mantouvalou -- Individualization and the protection of worker voice in Australia / Breen Creighton -- 'It's oh so quiet?': Employee voice and the enforcement of employment standards in Australia / Tess Hardy.
This book investigates the intersection between law and worker voice in a sample of industrialised English speaking countries, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and USA. While these countries face broadly similar regulatory dilemmas, they have significant differences between their industrial systems and legal cultures.