Workers of the world: International labour movement responses to globalization

劳资关系是2007年联邦选举中最重要的问题。工党政府的回归表明，大多数澳大利亚人希望维护工人集体谈判争取更好工资和工作条件的权利。本项目通过分析促使国际上反工人政策的全球力量和工人运动在世界范围内的反应，直接讨论了这些问题。它还将把澳大利亚的学术和主题纳入一项面向国际观众的主要比较研究，目前全球政治钟摆已转向对抗企业过度行为和改善员工生活和工作水平。

Industrial relations was the most significant issue in the 2007 federal election. The return of the Labor Government suggests the majority of Australians wished to preserve workers' rights to bargain collectively for better wages and working conditions. This project speaks directly to such concerns by analysing the global forces that have prompted anti-worker policies internationally and the worldwide responses on the part of labour movements. It will also incorporate Australian scholarship and subject-matter into a major comparative study for an international audience, at a time when the global political pendulum has swung in the direction of confronting corporate excesses and improving employees' living and working standards.