Since the pilots’ dispute ended in 1989, globalisation has fundamentally altered the environment in which pilots establish their terms of employment. This paper argues that pilot labour relations have been affected by globalisation in three ways. First, the Australian airline industry was deregulated in 1990. Second, the introduction of the Workplace Relations Act (1996) deregulated the Austral...

Article history: Received 4 July 2014 Available online 8 November 2014 In this article, data from the 2005 European Working Conditions Survey are used to examine the relationship between contemporary employment arrangements and thework-related well-being of European employees. By means of a Latent Class Cluster Analysis, several features of the employment conditions and relations characterizing...

By tradition, Australian industrial relations has been regulated by industrial awards and collective agreements made by, or under the auspices of, industrial tribunals. The central parties to these agreements and awards were employers and trade unions. The individual employment contract between employer and employee was subject to these collective arrangements which, generally speaking, set the...

This paper presents the findings of a case study undertaken in a British utility company, referred to as Energy Co. The main aim of the study was to assess how the agreement of a partnership arrangement in 1995 had affected the conduct of employment relations. The study found that partnership was borne out of a poor industrial relations climate, and driven primarily by management. They hoped th...

Perspectives on employer-employee relations have undergone significant changes, and business historians can daim a substantial contribution to the subject's development. What was once the study of trades unions and collective bargaining was transformed into an investigation of shop-floor organization and the regulation of employment. The focus moved to the firm, its objectives and its capabilit...