Chapter titles: Chapter 1: Labor Economics Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2: The Theory of Individual Labor Supply -- Chapter 3: Population, Participation Rates, and Hours of Work -- Chapter 4: Labor Quality: Investing in Human Capital -- Chapter 5: The Demand for Labor -- Chapter 6: Wage Determination and the Allocation of Labor -- Chapter 7: Alternative Pay Schemes and Labor Efficiency -- Chapter 8: The Wage Structure -- Chapter 9: Mobility, Migration, and Efficiency -- Chapter 10: Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining -- Chapter 11: The Economic Impact of Unions -- Chapter 12: Government and the Labor Market: Employment, Expenditures, and Taxation -- Chapter 13: Government and the Labor Market: Legislation and Regulation -- Chapter 14: Labor Market Discrimination -- Chapter 15: Job Search: External and Internal -- Chapter 16: The Distribution of Personal Earnings -- Chapter 17: Labor Productivity: Wages, Prices, and Employment -- Chapter 18: Employment and Unemployment.Relevance to union business.Book; paper.Front cover: authors' names and titles.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, economics - labor, unions, collective bargaining, wealth distribution, employment

Labor economics. Section headings: -Labor economics : Introduction and overview -The theory of individual labor supply -Population, participation rates and hours of work -Labor quality : Investing in human capital -The demand for labor -Wage determination and the allocation of labor -Alternative pay schemes and labor efficiency -The wage structure -Mobility, migration and efficiency -Labor unions and collective bargaining -The economic impact of unions -Government and the labor market : Employment expenditures and taxation -Government and the labor market : Legislation and regulation -Theories of labor market discrimination -Women, blacks and the labor market -Critiques of orthodox wage theory -The personal distribution of earnings -Labor productivity : Wages, prices and employment -Employment and unemployment -Wages and inflation -Information sources in labor economicsWorkplace relations/labor relations and economics. Authors are from Nebraska, USA writing in 1995.Book; paper.Front cover: authors' names and titlebtlc, ballarat trades and labour council, economics, wages, employment, workplace relations - enterprise bargaining

Chapter headings: 1. Labor-force participation 2. Hours of work and the supply of effort 3. The supply of skill: investment in human capital 4. Marginal productivity theory in competitive markets 5. The demand for labor: some extensions 6. Job search, mobility, and migration 7. Unemployment and unfilled vacancies 8. Union goals 9. The bargaining process 10. The effect of collective bargaining on relative earnings 11. Occupational wage differentials 12. Wage differentials by race and sex 13. The distribution of earnings by size 14. Fringe benefits 15. Labor's share in national income 16. The general level of money wagesIndustrial relations and labor economics.Book; paper.Front cover: author's name and title. Title page: in black ink, "D.J. Spiers".btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, labor economics, wages, industrial relations, wealth distribution, collective bargaining, unions

An account of some of Australia's best economic, political and social reform, including interviews with Fraser, Hawke, Keating, Howard, Rudd and Whitlam's confidant Graham Freudenberg. Table of contents: Three years late to the party The Gough shock A gathering crisis The ingredients for a crack-up Testing the nation's constitution The age of the rorter The siren song of the quarry The drover's dog has his day Learning to let go A license to reform Getting ahead of the game The cult of property Recession as nation-builder The dynamic duo dissolves The last serious election Rolling back the years Passing the tests He of the never ever Tuning in to globalisation The last rich nation standing. Relevant to Australian history, economics, social reform and politics.Paper; book. Front cover: white background; colour photographs of Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and the character Kath (from the TV show Kath and Kim); red, black and blue lettering.Front cover: author's name and title; quotes from Annabel Crabb and Don Watson.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, economics, politics, social history, alp, australian labor party, liberal party australia, rudd, kevin, fraser, malcolm, whitlam, gough, howard, john, hawke, bob, freudenberg, graham, social reform, prime minister, society and culture

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