• Most up-to-date Industrial Relations textbook available
• Covers Work Choices Act 2005 in details and its impact
• Covers the High Court challenge to Work Choices Act 2005
• Asian comparative material now includes the People's Republic of China
• Fully updated to 2007
• New more readable format
• Full coverage of all areas for all introductory industrial relations courses
• Includes theories, history, institutions, practices
• Readable and user friendly, including diagrams and tables
• Fully referenced and indexed
• Full chapter on Enterprise Bargaining and Australian Labour Market
• Discusses new Human Resource Management strategies
• Includes case studies on Australian Waterfront Dispute and CRA Dispute
• Comparative Asian material is separate: at the end of each chapter (and in chapter 13)
• Comparative material on Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and China
• Includes negotiation chapter for most students not proceeding to a Negotiation unit
• Sample Australian Workplace Agreement
• Each chapter has learning objectives, review questions, key additional readings
• Sequentially numbered pages!

Also available to adopting lecturers:

A full set of Overhead Transparencies as Power Point slides on CDROM