Putting wage-earners into wage-earners' welfare states: the relationship between social policy and industrial relations in Australia and New Zealand.

From: Australian Journal of Social Issues | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Ramia, Gaby; Wailes, Nick | Copyright information

The "wage-earners' welfare state" model has gained wide acceptance as a framework explaining the evolution of Australian and New Zealand social protection. Despite its important contribution to Australasian and comparative policy analysis, however, the model does not adequately highlight the importance of the labour market to social protection. This is because it treats the industrial relations system as largely static. This paper considers debates within both the industrial relations and s...

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