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The Struggle for Australian Industrial Relations

The Struggle for Australian Industrial Relations BOOK REVIEW - 207 - AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT December 1995 - 208 - Vol. 20, No. 2 Taylor reviews DABSCHECK Book Review: by Braham Dabscheck, 1995 (Melbourne, Oxford University Press) $A26.95, paperback, pp. xiv + 194. hat is different about modern Australian industrial relations is that the clash W between labour and capital at the fault line of capitalism is being fought out not only within the realm of the established social institutional framework, but more importantly around the very nature of that framework. The features of what some term the social structure of accumulation are today key subjects of political and social contest and nowhere has this been more visible than in the area of industrial relations institutions. The work under review is a very forceful, and at times, passionate, contribution to recent debates surrounding these processes of transformation. Dabscheck who has been a long-standing and lively contributor to the controversies in Australian industrial relations does nothing in this new book, billed as a sequel to his Australian Industrial Relations in the 1980s, which will dull his reputation. On offer are essentially a set of five substantive essays, all but one addressing what are seen as the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Management SAGE

The Struggle for Australian Industrial Relations

Taylor, Vic
Australian Journal of Management , Volume 20 (2): 6 – Dec 1, 1995
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BOOK REVIEW - 207 - AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT December 1995 - 208 - Vol. 20, No. 2 Taylor reviews DABSCHECK Book Review: by Braham Dabscheck, 1995 (Melbourne, Oxford University Press) $A26.95, paperback, pp. xiv + 194. hat is different about modern Australian industrial relations is that the clash W between labour and capital at the fault line of capitalism is being fought out not only within the realm of the established social institutional framework, but more importantly around the very nature of that framework. The features of what some term the social structure of accumulation are today key subjects of political and social contest and nowhere has this been more visible than in the area of industrial relations institutions. The work under review is a very forceful, and at times, passionate, contribution to recent debates surrounding these processes of transformation. Dabscheck who has been a long-standing and lively contributor to the controversies in Australian industrial relations does nothing in this new book, billed as a sequel to his Australian Industrial Relations in the 1980s, which will dull his reputation. On offer are essentially a set of five substantive essays, all but one addressing what are seen as the

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Australian Journal of Management – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1995

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