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| New Progressive Agendas in the World of Work |
This month, Per Capita releases two new papers by David Coats, Associate Director of the Work Foundation (www.workfoundation.org), exploring new progressive agendas in the world of work.
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| Quality of Work and a New Politics of the Quality of Life: A progressive agenda for the workplace | |
The goal of this short paper is to explain why labour parties must rethink their approach to the place that work has in all our lives – and in a wider progressive narrative. Of course, the focus of the Australian conversation in recent times has been on the legal rights of individuals and the regulation of trade union activities. But the case I want to outline here is that progressives should have more to say about the world of work beyond the arguments for a modest extension of employment protection legislation. Our starting point has to be that the contract of employment is more than a merely economic relationship...
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| Union Futures: Why progressives should care about the future of labour | |
This paper makes two arguments; first, that progressive parties cannot afford to be neutral about the role of organised labour and second, that a determined effort must be made to improve workplace employment relations, by encouraging effective employer-union co-operation. It may have struck you already that these seem to be two quite distinct arguments. You might even find it difficult to relate one to the other. But my case is that the political role of organised labour is legitimised by the fact that trade unions have credibility in the workplace...
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