The Evolution of the Idea of a Labour Law Subject in Australian Legal Scholarship

Download or read book The Evolution of the Idea of a Labour Law Subject in Australian Legal Scholarship written by Richard Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's economic and industrial systems were intensively regulated through extensive labour laws more or less since the early 1900s. These systems, based on the conciliation and arbitration of industrial disputes (or similar concepts), regulated terms and conditions of employment, secured the rights of trade unions and limited industrial action among other things. However, notwithstanding this wide-ranging industrial and labour regulation, the emergence of an 'idea' of a labour law subject which would draw together the relevant subject matter of a field of policy, and which could be offered as a subject taught in institutions of higher learning was very slow in evolving. This paper examines that evolution, and the state of the subject as it stands today.