Technology and other changes to work processes since the 1940s. Context: industrial relations, technology and management of workforce change.Book.Front cover: editor's name and titleballarat trades and labour council, btlc, industrial relations - management of change, technology, unions

Selection of essays about current (1987) industrial change, impacts of advancing technology. Includes decline in manufacturing, redundancy, retraining, women in the workforce, public sector management, challenges posed by new-right forces and the role of unions.Relevant to the role of unions in technological change and management of change in the workforce. Industrial relations.Book.Front cover: editor's name and title. Title page: in black ink, "D.J. Spiers, Curtin University, April 1988".btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, management of change, redundancy, technology, manufacturing, workforce - skills, women, politics - new right, trade unions

Published semi-annually, contains refereed, scholarly articles about social and labour history in Australasia, - labour politics, trade unions, management labour practices, co-operatives, gender and ethnicity. This edition includes these articles: -Deskilling Revisited: Continuity and Change in Craft Work and Apprenticeship in Late 19th Century NSW -'Depravity and Disorder': the Sexuality of Convict Women -'That Old Treasure-House of Constructive Suggestion': Australian Labor Ideology and War Organisation of Industry -'Four More Points than Moses': Dr. H.V. Evatt and the Press and the 1944 Referendum -Chifley, the Army and the 1949 Coal Strike Labour and class politics; direct relevance to industrial relations; social issues in general that fall within the purview of the union movement.Book; paper.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, history - labour, labourism, politics - class, industrial relations, economics, politics - communism, women's rights, book reviews, conference reports