In Australia, industrial relations research has focused almost exclusively on the major industrial relations institutions and their role in the determination of the rules of the workplace. Local workplace industrial relations and the interaction between worker representatives and enterprise management has been a neglected area of research. This study attempts to rectify this situation. By focusing attention on the workplace, a number of important questions are raised that have not been systematically addressed in Australian industrial relations research. In particular, what, if any, is the role of shop stewards in a centralized system dominated by unions? The book also addresses the behaviour of shop stewards in the coal mining and power generation industry in the Latrobe Valley. After reviewing the existing literature, a model of shop steward behaviour is proposed based on the steward's leadership style and orientation to unionism. This model is then used to examine differences in the stewards' levels of bargaining, shop-floor organization, industrial action and relationships with members, management and unions.
- ISBN10 0195531892
- ISBN13 9780195531893
- Publish Date 1 March 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 September 2009
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 221
- Language English