Developments in comparative employment relations in Australia and New Zealand: reflections on 'Accord and Discord'

Title: Developments in comparative employment relations in Australia and New Zealand: reflections on 'Accord and Discord'
Creator: Bray, Mark; Rasmussen, Erling
Relation: Labour and Industry Vol. 28, Issue 1, p. 31-47
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2018.1427421
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: This article reflects on the recent literature comparing employment relations in Australia and New Zealand. It begins by returning to the ‘Accord and Discord’ article by Bray and Walsh, published in this journal in 1995, and the wave of comparative analysis that surrounded it. Developments since then, in both the real world of Australian and New Zealand employment relations and theoretical debate, are reviewed. They suggest two trends in comparative analysis. First, there is a need to go beyond institutionalist analysis in exploring the similarities and differences between the two countries. Second, it is possible that trends in Australian and New Zealand employment relations should be located in wider trajectories towards neoliberalism. Both trends offer great potential for future research.
Subject: comparative employment relations; labour law; institutionalism; neoliberalism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445524
Identifier: uon:42602
Identifier: ISSN:1030-1763
Language: eng
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