HD! WORK2203 complete course notes - lectures + readings + textbook

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Detailed complete course notes organised by week. I have made these detailed notes using ALL assessable content for the course - lecture slides, lecturer comments and examples, tutorials and presentations, required readings of journal articles and textbook chapter. ALL the important information for WORK2203 to help you get a great mark for tutorial participation, your policy submission assignment and the final exam! Topics in my notes are according to the week they were taught 1. Introducing industrial relations policy 2. Work and industrial relations today: what are the problems? 3. What can and should governments do? 4. How did we get here? What has policy been about in Australia? 5. What is the Fair Work Act aiming to achieve? 6. Policy issues: The union problem 7. Policy issues: Work and family 8. Policy issues: Skills and immigration 9. Reading week (no lectures) 10. Policy issues: The productivity puzzle 11. Policy futures 12. Overview and exam primer 13. Reading week (no lectures) Notes for the required readings and all textbook chapters are also included in these notes: Week 1 - no readings Week 2 Befort & Budd (2009) – Invisible hands, invisible objectives (chapter 1) Week 3 Wright (2018) – Australian industrial relations in 2017 Clibborn (2019) – Australian industrial relations in 2018: Inequality, policy stagnation and a brewing storm Week 4 Hyman (2008) – The state in Industrial Relations Hancock & Lansbury (2016) – Introduction to industrial relations reform: Looking to the future (textbook chapter 1) Harris (2016) – Towards a new workplace relations framework? A View from the Productivity Commission (textbook chapter 9) Week 5 Cooper & Ellem (2008) – The neoliberal state, trade unions and collective bargaining in Australia Ellem (2010) – The making of industrial relations policy: Where are we now and how did we get here? Hancock (2016) – Reforming industrial relations: Revisiting the 1980s and 1990s (textbook chapter 2) Cooper (2016) – ‘Dead, buried, cremated’ and exhumed? Consensus in industrial relations policy and politics in Australia (textbook chapter 4) Week 6 Cooper (2009) – Forward with Fairness? Industrial Relations under Labor in 2008 Cooper & Ellem (2017) – Cold climate: Australian unions, policy, and the state Gillard (2009) – Foreword to the Journal of Industrial Relations Stewart (2016) – Continuity and Change in Australian Labour Regulation: Work Choices, Fair Work and the role of the ‘independent umpire’ (textbook chapter 4) Week 7 Gahan et al. (2018) – Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2017 Bray et al. (2019) – Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2018 Bray & Macneil (2016) – Reforming collective bargaining (textbook chapter 7) Week 8 Baird (2016) – Policy tensions: Women, work and paid parental leave (textbook chapter 5) Baird (2004) – Orientations to paid maternity leave: Understanding the Australian debate Baird & O’Brien (2015) – Dynamics of parental leave in Anglophone countries: The paradox of state expansion in liberal welfare regimes Week 9 - no readings Week 10 Oliver & Wright (2016) – Australia’s shifting skills ecosystem: Contemporary challenges in education, training and immigration (textbook chapter 8) Clibborn (2015) – Why undocumented immigrant workers should have workplace rights Wright (2015) – Why do states adopt liberal immigration policies? The policymaking dynamics of skilled visa reform in Australia Week 11 Productivity Commission (2015) – Workplace relations framework inquiry (issues paper 1: context) Productivity Commission (2015) – Workplace relations framework inquiry (issues paper 3: the bargaining framework) Peetz (2015) – Labour productivity and industrial relations Richardson (2016) – Productivity, wages and true measures of economic gain (textbook chapter 7) Week 12 - no readings Week 13 - no readings