It is widely recognised that the category of casual work and its recent pattern of growth in
Australia are somewhat unusual in cross-national comparison. But there is continuing …

This report examines on-call and related forms of casual work in two selected industrialised
societies: New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand and Australia represent promising …

Ten years after the abolition of Britain's National Dock Labour Scheme (NDLS), the right-
wing Institute of Economic Affairs celebrated “a decade of unparalleled industrial peace …

Globalization has precipitated a major restructuring of the world's ports and brought in its
wake a marked deterioration in dock workers' terms and conditions of employment. Many …

The employment systems of Australia and New Zealand have much in common. Amongst
the many parallels is a parallel experience of casual work. In both countries a category of …

Who works on the waterfront in the twentyfirst century? How and why has the employment of
port labor changed over the past century or more? What are the implications of these …

This paper highlights the contribution of archival data and historical methods to impactful
research in industrial relations, the sociology of work, management studies and Human …

This study examines the rationales for and geographical outcomes of the post 1988 changes
in port governance in New Zealand and their implications from a policy perspective. The …

Western-style economies. The resulting institutional arrangements eliminated spot
contracting on the external labour market through port worker registration systems that …

New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act 1991 consigned to history almost 100 years of
pervasive state regulation of collective employment relations. Many unions experienced a …