Inventing Unemployment: Regulating Joblessness in Twentieth-Century Australia

Author:   Anthony O'Donnell
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   200
Publication Date:   17 June 2021
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Author:   Anthony O'Donnell
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781509952717


ISBN 10:   1509952713
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   17 June 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. A Disorganised Labour Market The British Context Social Surveys, the Casual Worker and the Problem of Unemployment The Employment Relationship in Australia Regularising Work in Australia 2. Defining Unemployment: Pre-War Endeavours The Census Trade Unions Social Insurance 3. The Labour Exchange Solution The Labour Exchange in British Social Thought The Labour Exchange in Pre-War Australia Wartime Labour Administration and the Directorate of Manpower 4. Social Policy in Wartime Designing an Unemployment Benefits Scheme The White Paper on Full Employment 5. Unemployment in a Time of Full Employment The Post-War Labour Market Statistics: Counting Unemployment The Work Test: Regulating Unemployment Unemployment and Industrial Disputes 6. Limiting Unemployment The Married Woman The Remote-Area Aboriginal Australian The ‘Dole Bludger’ 7. Reinventing Unemployment The Demise of the Standard Employment Relationship Towards an ‘Active Society’ From Work Test to Activity Test Making Agreements Enforcing Compliance Unemployment Benefit or Basic Income? Manipulating the Means Test 8. Marketing Unemployment The CES in the Post-War Labour Market The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The First Phase The End of the Public Employment Service in Australia: The Second Phase The Evolution of the Job Network Contracts All the Way Down?

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It is often thought that people are either employed or unemployed. Inventing Unemployment helps to unpack why and how a rigid divide between the two categories is not particularly helpful in understanding either one ... Inventing Unemployment is an important and compelling book which furthers understandings of the employment-welfare nexus. -- Gaby Ramia, University of Sydney, Australia * Journal of Industrial Relations * [A] meticulously researched and detailed examination of Australian unemployment law, administration and policy settings over the last century ... Social policy researchers, historians, public policy scholars and practitioners will find much value in the thought-provoking analysis offered by O'Donnell. -- Greg Marston, University of Queensland, Australia * Journal of Social Security Law * This is an important book both for specialists in labour law and welfare policy, but also for labour historians ... The book's strength is not simply its lucid explication of the evolution of law and policy relating to unemployment, but its secure grounding in historical context. -- Janet McCalman, University of Melbourne * Labour History *


It is often thought that people are either employed or unemployed. Inventing Unemployment helps to unpack why and how a rigid divide between the two categories is not particularly helpful in understanding either one ... Inventing Unemployment is an important and compelling book which furthers understandings of the employment-welfare nexus. -- Gaby Ramia, University of Sydney, Australia * Journal of Industrial Relations * [A] meticulously researched and detailed examination of Australian unemployment law, administration and policy settings over the last century ... Social policy researchers, historians, public policy scholars and practitioners will find much value in the thought-provoking analysis offered by O'Donnell. -- Greg Marston, University of Queensland, Australia * Journal of Social Security Law *


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Anthony O’Donnell is Senior Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

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