By Mark Bahnisch on August 16, 2011
The Centre for Policy Development has released an occasional paper as part of its Public Service Program, The State of the Australian Public Service: An alternative report. The report’s key findings include: a widening gap between the anti-public servant rhetoric [...]
Posted in Featured, Industrial Relations, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Australian public service, Centre for Policy Development, CPD, James Whelan, public employment, public sector, work |
By Brian on July 13, 2011
Sara Dowse has written an article based on Ross Perlin’s Intern Nation, a study of the burgeoning practice of internship in the US, although Perlin did his own stint in a London NGO and the practice seems well-established there. The [...]
Posted in Featured, Industrial Relations | Tagged work |
By Guest Poster on August 2, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Industrial Relations, Parenting, Policy | Tagged barbara pocock, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Industrial Relations, Policy, Thinking Points, work, work life balance |
By Kim on June 27, 2010
I admire Julia Gillard and always have. Those who’ve been around here for a long time, and have long memories, might recall that I was backing Gillard enthusiastically when Kim Beazley’s leadership was on its last legs. I welcome and [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Feminism, Politics, Relationships | Tagged agency, ALP, ambition, Anne Summers, Apology, care, Culture, Disasters, Ethics, fear, Federal election 2007, Feminism, first female PM, fluidity, hope, insecurity, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Kim Beazley, Labor, Labor leadership, liquid lives, Politics, press conference, risk society, second modernity, Shakira Hussein, Sociology, spill, stolen generations, structure, trust, work, workplace, workplace culture |
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 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 January 2, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3153159979_d584827f6d.jpg" Happy New Year 2009 image courtesy of zltgfx at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. There are quite a few cultural constants of New Year’s Eve – fireworks (and the illegal ones in my neck of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Life, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged calendar, choice, confession, Crikey, cultural sociology, cultural studies, freedom, habitus, holidays, individualism, Life, lifeworld, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, michel foucault, new year, new year's resolutions, new years eve, NYE, phenomenology, Pierre Bourdieu, Queensland election 2009, QUT, resolutions, Smart Services CRC, Sociology, strategy, work, work/life balance |
Recent Comments