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Reforms of work practices and IR procedures in the maritime industry: an Australia‐USA comparison
Author(s) -
Donn Cliff,
Morris Richard,
Phelan Gerry
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1991.tb00632.x
Subject(s) - deregulation , corporatism , competition (biology) , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , collective bargaining , regulatory reform , economy , business , political science , economics , market economy , politics , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , law , biology
Technological change, enhanced international competition, and a world‐wide shipping depression for much of the 1980s posed new challenges for the Australian and US maritime industries. In Australia, maritime workplace reform was carried out by a focus on government‐sponsored corporatism and consensus while in the US reform focused on deregulation and collective bargaining. It is unlikely that either pattern will produce fleets that are truly competitive.