|
For recent research reports from the Centre for Work + Life, visit: http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/cwl/default.asp
Benchmarks The 2007 Work and Family Policy Roundtable Benchmarks can be accessed at: http://www.familypolicyroundtable.com.au/ Report Not Fair, No Choice: The Impact of WorkChoices on twenty South Australian workers and their households can be accessed at: http://barbarapocock.com.au/documents/Not%20Fair%20No%20Choice.pdf Report Work, Life and Time: The Australian Work and Life Index 2007 can be accessed at: http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/cwl/default.asp Book The Labour Market Ate My Babies: Work, Children and a Sustainable Future click here to order
Published by Federation Press in October 2006. Launched at Imprints, 107 Hindley Street, Adelaide, 6.00pm, 17th November by Minister Jay Weatherill
Report on the effects of WorkChoices on South Australian Workers Not Fair, No Choice Released July 2007
Clare Burton Lecture 2006 'Jobs, Care and Justice: A Fair Work Regime for Australia'
Click here for details of venues and arrangements
Click here for a copy of the lecture For a 5 minute summary podcast of 'Jobs, Care and Justice' from ABC RN Perspectives, 28th November 2006 click here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/pve_20061128.mp3 Book The Labour Market Ate My Babies: Work, Children and a Sustainable Future click here to order
Published by Federation Press in October 2006.
BACK COVER In The Labour Market Ate My Babies Barbara Pocock, acclaimed author of The Work/Life Collision,
examines the impact of modern working life on our children. In this
book, young Australians from all over the country, city and the bush,
rich and poor, talk about the good and bad of parental work - the trade
off between money and time, consumer riches versus time for each other. Pocock
argues that the modern labour market is having a huge impact on today’s
youth and eating into our capacity to care. Children have become a
‘market’. Caring for kids and selling to kids is big business, as
stressed, time-poor parents struggle to care for their children and
salve their guilt with presents and pocket money. How will this future generation of workers weigh up the labour market and organise their lives? The Labour Market Ate My Babies
argues that a sustainable future requires new policy approaches to work
that incorporate the perspectives of children.
We should:
• ensure that parents get the time they need away from work when they need it
• help parents get a good fit between how they want to work, and how they have to
• provide quality, low cost, public childcare options
• stop advertising to kids in ways that stimulate an early work/spend cycle.
"It’s
good to get money coming in and probably it’s good to work as hard as
you can when you’re younger so when you’re older you can retire with
some money. But there should probably be a limit to how much before
your relationships with other people start to strain because you are
never there" (Adam, 16) CONTENTS
Introduction and overview
Understanding households, work, and social reproduction
Work, children and time versus money
Job spillover: How parents’ job affect young people
Guilt, money and the market at work
Future work and households: Transitions and sharing
Kids as commodities? Childcare in Australia
Runaway consumption, the work/spend cycle and youth
Children, work and a sustainable future
Appendix ?Data sources ?Bibliography ?Index
Policy Principles for a National System of Early Childhood Education and CareBarbara Pocock and Elizabeth Hill are convenors of the Work + Family Policy Roundtable (www.familypolicyroundtable.com.au).
With the support of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the
roundtable convened a national workshop on early childhood education
and care in Australia in July 2006. The Roundtable heard fifteen papers
and agreed on a set of Principles for National System of early
Childhood Education and Care. The principles can be downloaded here,
and a fuller document including the principles, the participants at the
workshop, its program and abstracts of papers can be downloaded here. The papers will be published in a book through the Australian Council for Educational Research later in 2006
Centre for Work and LifeThe
Centre for Work + Life was established as part of the Hawke Research
Institute for Sustainable Societies at the University of South
Australia in January 2006. It is led by Professor Barbara Pocock (barbara.pocock@unisa.edu.au). Visit: http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/cwl/default.asp
The Centre's Charter: Charter for Centre for Work and Life The
Centre is conducting a range of research projects investigating the
issues affecting how Australian's live and work. Its current activities
include analysis of low paid work in Australia, the ways in which
Australians are 'putting together' their jobs, households and
communities in a range of socio-economic settings across Australia, and
the impact of changing industrial relations regulations upon working
Australians and their households and communities. The Centre is located at:
The Centre for Work + Life, St Bernards Road, Magill, SA
Postal Address: The Centre for Work + Life, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001 Australia
Telephone +61 8 8302 4194 Fax +61 8 8302 4227
Research Reports‘The configuration of work, home and community in Australia: Research background, context and some early analysis in two master planned communities’
with Philippa Williams and Susan Oakley, Paper presented at Seminar in the School of Business at University of Queensland, Friday 4th August 2006.
‘Women and Work: Pleasure, Pain, Prospects’
Powerpoint presentation at ‘Our work, Our lives’ A National Conference on Women and Industrial Relations, Brisbane, 12-14 July 2006
(Also presented at ‘From little things big things grow…’
Northern Territory IRS 2006 Annual Convention, Sky City Darwin, August 2006)
‘Work: yesterday, today and tomorrow: The impact of work in our lives’
Powerpoint presentation: National Conference: ‘24/7: Work-related alcohol and drug use’, Hilton Hotel Adelaide 29th June 2006
‘Work, families and affordable housing’
with Helen Masterman-Smith
Paper presented at Dunstan Foundation Forum ‘Over our heads: Housing cost and Australia’s future’, 6 June 2006, National Wine Centre, Adelaide
‘House, home and low pay. Some evidence from South Australian childcare workers
with Helen Masterman-Smith
Overheads presented at forum on low paid workers, RMIT, Melbourne, April 2006
'Research Evidence About the Effects of the 'Work Choices' Bill' A submission to the Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005 by a Group of 151 Australian Industrial Relations, Labour Market and Legal Academics, November 2005
The Impact of The Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005 (or "Work Choices") on Australian Working Families
A Paper Prepared for Industrial Relations Victoria, October 2005
Presentation to Work Life Association Annual Conference,
Royal Australian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, 18th October 2005
'Mediating the Work Life Collision: Some International Policies and Practices that Work'
Presentation to Brotherhood of St Laurence Symposium on Industrial Relations Changes 11th October 2005, University of Melbourne
Work and Family and the Howard Industrial Agenda
'Labour Market Participation, Working Time, and Work-Care Conflict: Lessons from Europe For Australia' Seminar Paper given at Institute for Employment Studies, Sussex University, 8th June 2005
Download word version
Witness Statement in Support of 14 weeks Paid Maternity Leave in the South Australian public sector (the basis of 1.5 days cross examination in the SA Industrial Relations Commission on 28th February, 1st March 2005)
download pdf version
'Who's a Worker Now? And What Does it Matter for Australian Politics?' Download Pdf version
Keynote address to 2005 AIRAANZ (Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand) Annual Conference, 9-11th February 2005, University of Sydney
'Successful Research in the Work/Life Collision: What's Possible?'
Presentation to the ANU Law School, 3rd November 2004
Download a copy (powerpoint)
'A New Work and Care Settlement: Can Australia's Institutions Catch up with Australians?'
The 2004 T. R. Ashworth Lecture in Sociology, Wednesday 13th October 2004, The University of Melbourne
To download a copy of the lecture (Word)
Powerpoint Presentation on "Work and Care Futures: What Young People Think and Plan"
Download the slides
Powerpoint Presentation on "The Work/Life Collision"
Download the slides
Work and Family Futures: How Young Australians Plan to Work and Care
(The Australia Institute, 2004)
Download a summary of this report (PDF)
Can't Buy Me Love?
(The Australia Institute, 2004), (with Jane Clarke)
This report was released in February 2004. It is published by The Australia Institute which funded the study along with support from the Australian Research Council. It examines the views of young Australians about their parents, work, their views about parental time versus money, parental guilt and the spillover of parents, jobs onto young people, along with issues related to young people's own consumption.
Download a summary of this report (PDF)
Only a Casual? How Casual Work Affects Employees, Households and Communities in Australia
(Labour Studies, University of Adelaide, 2004)
Download a copy of the full report (word doc)
Download a copy of the Summary report (pdf)
Securing Quality Employment: Policy Options for Casual and part-time Workers in Australia.
(With John Buchanan and Iain Campbell.)
Report to the Chifley Foundation, April 2004.
Download from http://www.chifley.org.au
"New Industrial Relations" - Meeting the Challenge of Casual Work in Australia
(With John Buchanan and Iain Campbell.)
Paper at the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Noosa, Queensland. Summarises policy options on the regulation of casual work in Australia.
The Work/Life Collision
(Federation Press, 2003)
Download chapter 1 (PDF)
Fifty Families: What Unreasonable Hours are Doing to Australians, Their Families and Their Communities
(ACTU, 2001)
(with Stefani Strazzari, Brigid van Wonrooy, and Ken Bridge)
A copy of this report is downloadable from http://www.actu.asn.au/public/papers/fiftyfamilies.html OR Download a copy of this report (DOC)
Having a Life: Work, Family, Fairness and Community
(Centre for Labour Research, 2001)
Released in May 2001, this report examines what work is doing to Australians through a qualitative study based in South Australia. a copy of the report 'Having a Life'.
Download a copy of this report (PDF)
Doing More With Less: Tension and Change at work in South Australian Local Government
(Authors: Barbara Pocock, Margaret Sexton, Lou Wilson.)
Released in June 2001, this report examines change in local government in South Australia through analysis of literature, a series of case studies, and a randomised survey of employees in selected South Australian local councils. Download a copy of the report 'Doing More With Less'.
Download a summary of this report (word doc)
Union Renewal: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Union Power'
(Centre for Labour Research, Adelaide. Author Barbara Pocock.)
This report sets out a framework for making sense of union power as unions attempt to transform their institutions to meet the challenge of a new workplace and industrial regime in Australia.
Organising our Future. What Australian Unions Can Learn from US Labour's Fightback
(with John Wishart)
This reports a 1998 study of union renewal in the US and Canada.
Other BooksStrife: Sex and Politics in Labour Unions
(Allen & Unwin, 1998); (edited book)
Demanding Skill: Women and Technical Education in Australia
(Allen & Unwin, 1988)
Changing Systems, Women, Work and TAFE
(AGPS, 1987)
|
home | 
