- Title
- 'We came from B shift, and B shift was the enemy': rules, norms and conflict at an aluminium smelter
- Creator
- Postrado, Lotus; Macneil, Johanna; Bray, Mark
- Relation
- 23rd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. Labour, Capital and Change: Proceedings of the 23rd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand 2009, Volume 1: Refereed Papers (Newcastle, N.S.W. 4-6 February, 2009)
- Relation
- http://airaanzweb.weebly.com/2009-conference-main.html
- Publisher
- Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) / Newcastle Business School, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper describes a specific period of industrial conflict between a single workgroup - the B Shift operators- and their managers in the potrooms at the aluminium smelter at Kurri Kurri from about 2002 until the conflict was resolved in early 2007. Using extensive interview data, company records and documents, and AIRC documentation, we describe the process of conflict. We seek to explain the conflict process and its outcomes in terms of the institutional theory. Specifically, we investigate the impact of formal rules, particularly the specific terms of the Enterprise Agreement and their enforcement, and informal rules, in the form of the norms of the workgroup, on the nature of the conflict.
- Subject
- industrial conflict; Kurri Kurri, N.S.W.; institutional theory; norms
- Identifier
- uon:9102
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/920225
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780980608502
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