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By Mark Bahnisch on March 10, 2010
Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that “if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages”: Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate [...]
Posted in Feminism, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics, Women | Tagged arbitration, asu, award system, awards, community sector, eloise keating, equal pay, equal pay alliance, Eric Abetz, Fair Work Australia, Feminism, gender equity, house of representatives committee on education and wor, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, labour market, making it fair, parental leave, pay equity, social inequality, social policy, statistics, test case, Tony Abbott, unions, Women, work, work value case |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 18, 2009
Reports that Barack Obama is prepared to concede the public option in the health care bill (with some perhaps vague hope that it might be reinserted in a conference between the House and Senate on reconciling inconsistent provisions) expose the [...]
Posted in Health, Medicine, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, death panels, Democrats, health insurance, healthcare, ideology, life chances, public option, Robert Reich, social democracy, social inequality, Sociology, structural inequality, us congress |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 14, 2009
My post last week on the decision to decrease the real wages of those reliant on awards for their pay by the so-called Fair Pay Commission sparked a somewhat heated thread, largely around the contention by some commenters that it [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics, Sociology | Tagged award rates, awards, Ben Eltham, Economics, employment, Fair Pay Commission, Ian Harper, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, labour economics, minimum wage, neo-liberalism, New Matilda, social inequality, social policy, steve dowrick, unemployment, wages policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 5, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jefferson_thumbo87o8686.jpg" align=left Karl Marx’ concept of ‘fictitious capital’ has enjoyed something of a revival recently – in the context of explaining the Global Financial Crisis. It’s interesting to observe [h/t Richard Metzger at Boing Boing] that Marx doesn’t appear [...]
Posted in Culture, Developing world, Economics, Immigration, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, CCi, creative economy, creative industries, economic sociology, economy, Fernand Braudel, fictitious capital, finance capital, financialisation, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, globalisation, Immigration, insecurity, intellectual property, Karl Marx, knowledge economy, labour mobility, neo-liberalism, networks, Paul Keating, QUT, regulation school, Robert Metzger, Robert Reich, services, services economy, social inequality, Sociology, sub prime mortgages, symbolic analysts, Thomas Jefferson, work, world systems theory |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
Simon Jackman has the good oil on what Bob Brown and Steve Fielding are putting on the table as Senate deliberations on Kevin Rudd’s fiscal stimulus continue. Both are emphasising the unemployed and job creation (with Brown arguing for green [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Australian Greens, benefits, Bob Brown, Family First, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Henry review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, minor party, Rudd government, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate passage, Senators, social inequality, social policy, Steve Fielding, stimulus package, The Greens, unemployed, unemployment, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 6, 2009
I was having a chat with a friend over dinner last night, and we were talking about transformational politics. The missing ingredient in Kevin Rudd’s discussion of social democracy appears to be any sense that there’s some goal ahead, other [...]
Posted in Activism, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, alternative economic strategy, Christian socialism, free markets, global financial crisis, globalisation, human capital, ideology, income inequality, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, neo-liberalism, political economy, Politics, Red Pepper, Rudd government, social democracy, social inequality, stimulus, Stuart Holland, Third Way, Tony Benn, transformational politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
The economic news of the day was a fall in the number of jobs advertised – as measured by ANZ – to “recession levels” – the eighth successive monthly drop. A number of economists extrapolated this to an unemployment rate [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, International, Poverty, Sociology | Tagged ANZ, employment, Fair Pay Commission, global financial crisis, Ian Harper, jobs data, Julie Bishop, Keynes, Liberal Party, Mike Steketee, neoliberalism, social inequality, unemployment |
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