Work Reorganisation in Two Australian Open-Cut Coal Companies.

From: Labour & Industry | Date: August 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Introduction

This paper examines the implementation of work reorganisation in two Australian open-cut coal companies during the mid-1990s. From the mid-1980s, the Australian coal industry faced a crisis of profitability brought on by rising production costs and declining coal prices. Price reductions followed a period of market prosperity during the 1970s when the demand and price of export coal increased dramatically in response to the OPEC oil crises. The OPEC crises forced resource-dependent consumers to substitute alternative energy fuels for oil. Australian producers ...

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