Decent work and tourism workers in the age of intelligent automation and digital surveillance

A Rydzik, CS Kissoon - A Sustainable Tourism Workforce, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Technology is shifting not only how the tourism industry is run but also the nature of work,
working conditions and management control. This article examines the potential implications …

Controlling routine front line service workers: An Australian retail supermarket case

R Price - Work, employment and society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Food retail is known for its use of flexible labour and for the centralisation of functions at
head office, resulting in a reduction of managerial autonomy at store level. This article …

Accounting for the “uncounted” workers: a dialectical view of accounting through Rancière

D Yang, J Dumay, D Tweedie - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper examines how accounting either contributes to or undermines worker
resistance to unfair pay, thereby enhancing our current understanding of the emancipatory …

From corporatist consensus to neo-liberal revolution: A gendered analysis of the hotel workers union and its impact on (un) sustainable employment practices in the …

D Williamson, C Harris - A Sustainable Tourism Workforce, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
This paper takes a critical, historical employment relations approach to present an original
contribution to research on sustainable tourism employment. The research is focussed on a …

Employment relations in Australia

CF Wright, RD Lansbury - International and Comparative …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter examines the main features of the Australian employment relations system.
After outlining the key aspects of the regulatory and institutional framework, it looks at the …

Developments in comparative employment relations in Australia and New Zealand: reflections on 'Accord and Discord'

M Bray, E Rasmussen - Labour & Industry: a journal of the social …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article reflects on the recent literature comparing employment relations in Australia and
New Zealand. It begins by returning to the 'Accord and Discord'article by Bray and Walsh …

Building solidarity at the flax-roots: standing committees for women, Maori and Pacific Island members inside the Wellington Hotel and Hospital Workers' Union, 1979 …

C Locke - Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The Wellington Hotel and Hospital Workers' Union successfully increased its membership
participation and membership solidarity during the 1980s. It did this by implementing a union …

Digitalisation, gender and the future of work in retail

L Good - 2024 - ses.library.usyd.edu.au
This thesis examines how frontline supermarket workers experience digitalisation, and the
ways in which the process of digitalisation is gendered. It found that frontline employees …

Evaluating social partnership in the Australian context

Y Xu, G Patmore, PJ Gollan - Developing Positive Employment Relations …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Over the past 2–3 decades, many western countries have pursued an employment
relations (ER) agenda involving labour–management cooperation or a form of 'partnership'; …

Endangered species?: The demise of Enterprise Bargaining Agreements

Y Athanasopoulos, J Esler… - RES704: Faculty …, 2021 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
This research proposal reports on the conceptualisation for a thesis that will explore the
factors that have influenced Enterprise Bargaining's decline within the Australian Retail …