TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hancock, Keith
AB  - The advent of industrial regulation by tribunal came close to the turn of the century. Wages boards began in Victoria in 1896 and courts of arbitration in 1900. The first day of the new century was also the first day of the Commonwealth of Australia, endowed with a Parliament that was empowered to institute its chosen models of conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of interstate industrial disputes.  This book is a study of the operation of conciliation and arbitration, especially by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, from the inception of the system until World War II. It is not, however, a general history of conciliation and arbitration.  It does not, for example, deal with the successes and failures of the tribunals in preventing strikes and lockouts; or with the manifold legal issues to which the system gave rise, unless they affected significantly the tribunals’ exercise of their power to fix wages and conditions.  Rather, it is about fixing the terms of employment; and it attempts to set the tribunals’ performance in an economic context. It is about ‘wage policy’, if the term is interpreted broadly enough to include both prescribed wages and other factors that affect the cost of labour, including working hours and leave.
DO  - 10.20851/wage-policy
ID  - OAPEN ID: 560090
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 852140229
KW  - basic wage
KW  - harvester case
KW  - wage regulation
KW  - depression
KW  - keith hancock
KW  - wage critique
KW  - wage policy
KW  - Australia
KW  - Beeby
KW  - Cost of living
KW  - Living wage
KW  - Real wages
KW  - Unemployment
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/eb19ab08-0319-4624-ab78-eb108d99f828/560090.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33187
PB  - University of Adelaide Press
PY  - 2013
TI  - Australian Wage Policy: Infancy and Adolescencenull
ER  - 
