{"product_id":"australian-wage-policy-keith-hancock-9781922064479","title":"Australian Wage Policy: Infancy and Adolescence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Hancock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922064475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922064479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Adelaide Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.48d","brand":"Keith Hancock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001827311871,"sku":"9781922064479","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82468001-1d68-4407-a2c1-e06ce3d444a5.jpg?v=1751602263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/australian-wage-policy-keith-hancock-9781922064479","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}