Professor Barbara Pocock studies work in Australia.

Professor Barbara Pocock is Director of the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia.

Barbara has been researching work, employment and industrial relations since 1981. She joined the University of South Australia in January 2006, after fourteen years at the University of Adelaide.

Barbara has worked in many jobs - in shearing sheds, advising politicians, the public service, on farms, in unions, teaching and researching in universities, for governments and as a mother.

Barbara was initially trained as an economist, completed her doctorate in gender studies, and has taught and researched labour studies and social science since the mid-1980s.

Her research has included work, industrial relations, trade unionism, pay and pay equity, vocational education, inequality in the labour market and the award of a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship to study the intersections between work, family and community for 5 years, 2003-2007. She lives in Adelaide, South Australia, and is a mother of two.

2008 book (out in November 2008) Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney. Written by Helen Masterman-Smith and Barbara Pocock. For details visit: http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781741753967

2007 book Kids count: better early childhood education and care in Australia
Edited by Elizabeth Hill, Barbara Pocock and Alison Elliott Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2007
Click here to order:  http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781920898700

2006 book  The Labour Market Ate My Babies: Work, Children and a Sustainable Future CLICK HERE TO ORDER. 

2003 book  The Work/Life Collision. What Work is Doing to Australians and What to Do About It CLICK HERE TO ORDER.

1997 book Strife: Sex and Politics in Labour Unions Allen & Unwin, Sydney.

1988 book Demanding Skill: Women and Technical Education in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney

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