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Negotiating fair pay and conditions: low paid women's experience and perceptions of labour market deregulation and individual wage bargaining
Author(s) -
Jefferson Therese,
Preston Alison
Publication year - 2010
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.1468-2338.2010.00573.x
Subject(s) - negotiation , deregulation , labour economics , context (archaeology) , wage , economics , perception , industrial relations , collective bargaining , wage bargaining , low wage , market economy , political science , law , management , psychology , neuroscience , paleontology , biology
The OECD is strongly supportive of the industrial relations changes recently introduced in Australia. This article examines the experiences of low paid women in a deregulated labour market context. The research highlights the gendered effects of the recent reforms and cautions against the use of Australia as a model framework.