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New Employment Actors : Developments from Australia.

Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: New Employment Actors : Developments from Australia.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
New Employment Actors: Developments from Australia Edited by Grant Michelson, Suzanne Jamieson and John Burgess. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008, 285 pp., ISBN 978-3-039114-61-0 (alk. paper).

New Employment Actors: Developments from Australia is an edited book about how the employment relationship is changing to embrace participation by new actors. In the first chapter, the concept of actors is explored. Subsequent essays make the case that the State; and, the community and labour market are spawning agents that have the status of actors. The final section addresses emerging employment relations "processes." In these chapters, there is analysis of how certain agenda-driven new institutions, such as the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement, are influencing the world of work and employment. The book is written in the Australian context and mostly uses examples from that country's experience.

The work begins with an overview of the notion of employment relations actors. The discussion here is set against the backdrop of Dunlop's (1958) systems theory perspective which formed the mainstay of much industrial relations research...

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