The struggle for Australian industrial relations

the long version

The Struggle for Australian Industrial Relations describes and analyses what occurred in Australian industrial relations in the 1980s and early 1990s. It is a sequel to Dabscheck's Australian Industrial Relations in the 1980s. In examining the major issues and developments that have occurred in these years, Dabscheck develops a new general theory of (Australian) industrial relations based on the analytical device of an orbit of interaction. This theory is used to analyse the changes, and the increasing decentralisation, that have taken place in Australian industrial relations.