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Australian Industrial Relations in an Asian Context, 3rd Edition, is a fully updated revision of this successful, widely adopted core textbook on Industrial Relations. It covers all the essential material for any tertiary level course: the theories, history, institutions and practices. It is thoroughly referenced and each chapter has learning objectives, review questions and key additional readings. There are case studies and a sample AWA. A new lay-out improves readability. In this 3rd edition, two key additions include a thorough coverage of the Work Choices Act 2005 and, in the comparative Asian material at the end of most chapters, Australia's new major trading partner, the People's Republic of China .

This new edition covers some of the most important and far-reaching changes occurring in Australia today, including: the controversial Work Choices Act 2005 with its extensive changes to working conditions and our IR institutional structure, plus the High Court decision on the States and unions challenge to its validity. The book also covers enterprise-level employee relations; enterprise bargaining, what it is, how it is done, and the impact it is having; the reasons behind the steep decline in union membership; the erosion of collective bargaining; the new Human Resource Management strategies of employers; the Patrick v. MUA waterfront dispute (who really won, now the dust has settled and a TV version has been filmed?); the role of multinational corporations and influential employer associations like the Business Council of Australia, and much more. Lastly, and unique to this text, it helps place everything in our regional context, by including in most chapters a comparative coverage of five selected, economically significant Asian countries: South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and the People's Republic of China.

The authors are all highly qualified academics with extensive practical experience in the tough world of industrial relations. They also all teach IR, so understand the needs of contemporary students.

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