Recently added articles from Employment Relations Record:
Changing rural employment--a conceptual overview.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Jan 01, 2008; Tipples, Rupert ... What is Rural? Rural employment is not often the focus of employment relations journals. Yet food production, which is predominantly rural, is vital to us all. The rapid rise in many basic food commodity prices in 2008 was a salutary reminder that feeding the world's growing ...
55 + and working in an established rural regional Australian labour market.
Jan 01, 2008; Hicks, John ... Introduction Ageing as an area of research and policy formulation has accelerated in recent years in Australia and other Western industrialised countries on the basis that a demographic shift has, and is likely to continue for some years, to produce an economic problem. In ...
From "workforce planning" to "collective action": developments in the Australian dairy farm sector.
Jan 01, 2008; Nettle, Ruth ... Introduction Processes in farm employment relationships have been examined and farmer learning interventions analysed for their potential to support cultural change amongst farm employers (see Nettle, et al, 2005; Nettle, et al, 2006). This work highlighted the influence of ...
Dairy exporting and employment--a possible role for OAD milking.
Jan 01, 2008; Tipples, Rupert ... Introduction--The Importance of the Dairy Industry in New Zealand Today agriculture overall is New Zealand's largest export earner. In the year to 30 September 2007 dairy exports alone were 20.7% of total merchandise export value (NZ Debt Management Office, 2008). These were ...
Reinventing meatworkers: old skills but new careers for the twenty-first century?
Jan 01, 2008; Jerrard, Marjorie ... Workforce Development in the Meat Industry: Why would you do it? Australia is currently experiencing both skills shortages and labour shortages in many industries, ranging from mining to the meat industry. The difficulty for employers in industries such as the latter is that ...
The New Zealand shearing industry--a case study.
Jan 01, 2008; Pullin, Barry ... Introduction The shearing industry is a major employer in New Zealand agriculture. Industry sources estimate up to 7,500 plus people work in the industry. Shearing has always had a tough image but it is not always recognised as a highly skilled occupation. It requires long hours ...
The Australian workers' union and the country women's association: using union-community partnerships to take safety to farmers.
Jan 01, 2008; Jerrard, Marjorie A. ... Introduction: an Unlikely Partnership? Informing farmers, their families, and employees about research findings on rural occupational health and safety (ROHS) and assisting them to adopt appropriate safety procedures is a major challenge for organisations involved in ROHS (Shea ...
