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Australian wage policy : infancy and adolescence /

The advent of industrial regulation by tribunal came close to the turn of the century. Wages boards began in Victoria in 1896 and courts of arbitration in 1900. The first day of the new century was also the first day of the Commonwealth of Australia, endowed with a Parliament that was empowered to i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hancock, Keith, 1935- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: University of Adelaide Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Inception and setting
  • The Higgins era 1907-1921
  • The setting
  • The basic wage 1907-1921
  • Broadening the scope of wage policy
  • Caution and restraint 1921-1929
  • The setting
  • The Powers era
  • The new regime
  • Wage policy in Depression and recovery 1929-1939
  • The setting
  • Wage policy and the onset of Depression
  • The depths of the Depression
  • The basic wage in the recovery
  • Other aspects of wage policy 1935-1939
  • The economic critique
  • The economics of wage regulation.