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Invitation
The 24th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australian and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference is to be held from 3-5 February 2010 in Sydney, Australia.
The conference theme of Work in Progress: Crises, Choices and Continuity invites, in the tradition of earlier AIRAANZ conferences, a diverse range of papers which explore contemporary industrial relations theory and practice, and historical trends and patterns.
The periodic crises in market economies – such as the present “Global Financial Crisis” – are not necessarily countered by a neo-liberal response. That is, policy and decision makers at the workplace, firm and national levels all have choices in how they react to labour market, product market and capital market crises. Further, this theme fits well with the year 2010 being the centenary of the first elected Australian Labor Party governments in Australia (the Verran government in South Australia, the Commonwealth Fisher government, and the McGowen government in NSW – the 1899 Dawson administration in Queensland was not formed due to results of a popular election), and hence allows for papers exploring the periodic “crisis” in the relationship between the industrial (unions) and political (Labor/Labour party) wings of “political labour” in Australia and New Zealand.
Dr Alison Barnes and Dr Michael Lyons
Conference Convenors
on behalf of the UWS Conference Organising Committee
Nikola Balnave
Alison Barnes
George Lafferty
Michael Lyons
Conference Sponsors
Principal Sponsors
Executive Sponsor
Conference Exhibitors
McGraw Hill
NTEU
The Federation Press
Conference Lunch Sponsor
NTEU
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