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  • Labour Management in the Queensland Housing Commission under a Labour Government, 1945-56

    Author(s)
    Hollander, Robyn
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hollander, Robyn A.
    Year published
    1997
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    Abstract
    Australian governments, especially Labor governments, have traditionally enjoyed a reputation for being 'good' employers. However; efforts to evaluate this reputation and to explore the factors shaping management strategies have been limited. This article examines these issues through a case study of the Queensland Housing Commission's management of its building workforce in the years following the Second World War. In this case, the Queensland Labor government did not use its own workforce to establish new standards and its conservative approach to labour management strategies contrasted with a more progressive approach to ...
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    Australian governments, especially Labor governments, have traditionally enjoyed a reputation for being 'good' employers. However; efforts to evaluate this reputation and to explore the factors shaping management strategies have been limited. This article examines these issues through a case study of the Queensland Housing Commission's management of its building workforce in the years following the Second World War. In this case, the Queensland Labor government did not use its own workforce to establish new standards and its conservative approach to labour management strategies contrasted with a more progressive approach to industrial legislation. The article draws on the notion of political contingency to explain this apparent contradiction.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Industrial Relations
    Volume
    39
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/002218569703900405
    Subject
    Applied Economics
    Business and Management
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/121115
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