Word Count: 2001 The growth of part-time and casual employment in Australia, and elsewhere, in the last few decades has been well documented. ... In 1982 approximately 11 percent of Australian employees were employed as casual workers. ... It will also show that unemployment is just a small part of the structural problem within the Australian economy. ... George Megalomenis, writing on job insecurity in The Australian on June 12, gave this picture: " Workers are twice as likely to move from full-time to part-time work from one month to the next than they were 20 years ago, when Australia...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Write a brief history of early trade unionism in Great Britain and Australia. ... These men that tried and started these unions were faced with large resistance from the governments and employers. The employers and the government thought that these unions were conspiring against the trades so they made them illegal. ... In particular six English farmhands were sentenced to seven years in an Australian prison/jail for starting a trade union and being involved in union activities, they were in a village called Tolpuddle. ...

• Word Count: 798
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This change came only when the government expressed serious concern over the affects of the Asian financial crisis in their country. Coincidentally Nike's wage increase began on April 1, 1999, the same day the Indonesian government implemented a nation-wide mandate to increase minimum wages. ... An Australian researcher, Peter Hancock, investigated Nike factories in West Java and found that they require workers to work twelve hour shifts everyday. ...

• Word Count: 2348
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School