Deregulation, Macroeconomic Restraint and the Break-up of Employment

GO Smith

Deregulation, Macroeconomic Restraint and the Break-up of Employment

GO Smith

UNE Business School

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The paper argues that a conservative aggregate demand management stance combined with an ideologically-driven agenda of labour market deregulation has seriously weakened the bargaining position of Australian labour. Employment has become increasingly contingent and contextualised and is characterised by significant dispersion in pay, unpreferred hours of work, and intensification of work regimes. The current push for primacy of individual contracting adds a significant new dimension to these forces making for the break-up of employment. The terms have certainly been set for an important struggle in the history of Australia's workforce.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Creating a Culture of Full Employment: Refereed Papers from the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference & 12th National Conference on Unemployment
Editors	Graham Wrightson
Place of Publication	Newcastle, Australia
Publisher	University of Newcastle, Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CoFEE)
Pages	384-390
ISBN (Print)	1920701656
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	7th Path to Full Employment Conference & 12th National Conference on Unemployment - University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia Duration: 8 Dec 2005 → 9 Dec 2005

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Conference	7th Path to Full Employment Conference & 12th National Conference on Unemployment
City	Callaghan, Australia
Period	8/12/05 → 9/12/05

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Applied Economics

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Smith, GO. (2005). Deregulation, Macroeconomic Restraint and the Break-up of Employment. In G. Wrightson (Ed.), Creating a Culture of Full Employment: Refereed Papers from the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference & 12th National Conference on Unemployment (pp. 384-390). University of Newcastle, Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CoFEE). https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/802

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Smith, GO 2005, Deregulation, Macroeconomic Restraint and the Break-up of Employment. in G Wrightson (ed.), Creating a Culture of Full Employment: Refereed Papers from the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference & 12th National Conference on Unemployment. University of Newcastle, Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CoFEE), Newcastle, Australia, pp. 384-390, 7th Path to Full Employment Conference & 12th National Conference on Unemployment, Callaghan, Australia, 8/12/05. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/802>

Deregulation, Macroeconomic Restraint and the Break-up of Employment. / Smith, GO.
Creating a Culture of Full Employment: Refereed Papers from the 7th Path to Full Employment Conference & 12th National Conference on Unemployment. ed. / Graham Wrightson. Newcastle, Australia: University of Newcastle, Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CoFEE), 2005. p. 384-390.

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