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The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions (2008)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2008). The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions. Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(2), 355-366. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185607087908

Just prior to the 2007 General Election, a group of labour lawyers and economists, broadly sympathetic to the Labor Party, produced a Charter of Employment Rights. This article examines the Charter's proposals and its underlying framework, and sugges... Read More about The Australian Charter of Employment Rights: The missing dimensions.

State Intervention for Food Price Stabilisation in Africa: Can It Work? (2006)
Journal Article
Poulton, C., Dorward, A., Kydd, J., & Wiggins, S. (2006). State Intervention for Food Price Stabilisation in Africa: Can It Work?. Food Policy, 31(4), 342-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2006.02.004

Although its arguments may have more general applicability, this paper discusses the desirability and options for the stabilisation of staple food prices principally in Eastern and Southern Africa. It addresses three broad questions: (i) why is stabi... Read More about State Intervention for Food Price Stabilisation in Africa: Can It Work?.

Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle (2006)
Book
Chang, D.-O. (Ed.). (2006). Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle. Asia Monitor Resource Centre

This edited volume examines how ‘work’ is being recomposed by mobile capital in Asia. In so doing, it traces the interaction between multinational companies and local labour, drawing on the examples of the evolution of emerging multinational giant Sa... Read More about Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle.