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WorkChoices and women workers

This article argues that the Howard Government's WorkChoices package provides no prospects of ameliorating the impa... Show more
This article argues that the Howard Government's WorkChoices package provides no prospects of ameliorating the impacts of low pay and the work/life collision on women workers. In the Government's neo-liberal view, this is simply the desirable playing out of market forces in the free exchange of human labour. People are, however, more than the sum of their labour. The dignity and living wage that generations of working people have struggled for, and are entitled to in a democratic society, are under serious threat from the current industrial relations proposals. These 'reforms' may well unravel decades of struggle for workers' rights and gender equality.
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Authors: Pocock, Barbara; Masterman-Smith, Helen

Date: 2005

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Journal of Australian political economy

Subjects: Gender; Equity; Employment ... [+] Show more