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By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2010
One of the debates we should no doubt be having about the spate of violent and racist attacks on Indian students in this country is around the conditions of service work in the less salubrious bits of the service industries [...]
Posted in Australiana, Economics, Education, Industrial Relations, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, globalisation, health and saftey, Immigration, Indian students, Industrial Relations, international students, night time economy, nurses, racism, service industry, Sociology, structural racism, visa, workers, workplace health and safety, workplace safety, zero harm |
By Guest Poster on September 18, 2008
MB writes: Lost, it would appear, in the government’s focus on productivity as the ruling motif of the workplace is any consideration of the human costs of work in the new economy. I had hoped that Julia Gillard might bring [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Ethics, Feminism, Health, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Sociology, Women | Tagged economic sociology, gender and work, globalisation, Julia Gillard, new economy, politics of work, precarious work, quality of working life, risk society, social theory, Sociology, sociology of work, workplace deaths, workplace health and safety |
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