Background to Industrial Relations During the Early Stages of Industrial Development: Some New Guinea Experience

P. Lawrence , "Work, Employment, and Trade Unionism in Papua and New Guinea", Journal of Industrial Relations , Vol. 6, No. 2, July, 1964, p. 34.

Report of the Board of Inquiry Investigating Rural Wages and Related Matters (T.P.N.G., 1964), p. 40.

R.R. Nayacakalou , Indigenous Labourers on the Bougainville Copper Project -a Report to C.R.A. Management (monograph, 1968).

Rural wages report, op. cit. , p. 17.

For example, ibid., p. 34.

Ibid., pp. 25-7.

I.G. Ord , "Leadership Selection in the Public Service of Papua and New Guinea" , paper presented at New Guinea in Transition Seminar, P.-N.G. Univ., Port Moresby, May 19-22, 1967, pp. 5-8.

Rural wages report, op. cit ., p. 41.

H. Bell , "Goodbye to All That?", New Guinea , June/July, 1967, p. 51.

Ibid., p. 50; all had Standard VI or better education as well as above average I.Q.

R.R. Nayacakalou , Non-Industrial Problems of the Bougainville Copper Project-a Report to C.R.A. Management (monograph, 1967), p. 24 and pp. 33-4.

A.K. Rice , Productivity and Social Organisation: The Ahmedabad Experiment ( Tavistock, 1958), pp. 231-2 and p. 251.

These views appear to accord with those of P. Lawrence , op. cit. , p. 33;

R.R. Nayacakalou , "Non-Industrial Problems ...", op. cit. , p. 12;

and L.E. Davis , "The Design of Jobs", Journal of Industrial Relations , Vol. 9, No. 2, July, 1967, p. 138.

P. McKenzie , "Aborigines in Industry-Groote Eylandt", paper presented at The Problems of Aboriginal Employment, Wages and Training Seminar, Monash Univ., Centre for Research into Aboriginal Affairs, May 23-25, 1966, p. 9.

Ibid., p. 8.

C.L. Beltz , "High Level Manpower in Papua and New Guinea-Current Situation and Future Prospect", paper presented at Industrial Relations in a Developing Economy Seminar, P.-N.G. Univ., Port Moresby, October 25-30, 1968, p. 24.

R. M. Martin made this suggestion in the course of a verbal paper regarding the organization of unions at the "Industrial Relations in a Developing Economy" Seminar, op. cit.

J. Paterson , "Some Suggestions for Changes in the Organisational Basis of Workers' Association", ibid.

W.A. Lewis , "Industrialisation and Social Peace", Industrial Review (T.P.N.G., Dept. of Labour), Vol. 5, No. 2, May, 1967, p. 23.

The committee is conducted essentially along lines suggested by E.J. Herbert , "The Need for Communication Between Management and Workers", Industrial Review (T.P.N.G., Dept. of Labour), Vol. 5, No. 1, Feb., 1967 , pp. 25-6.

P. Lawrence , op. cit., p. 37.

The ephemeral support shown for workers' associations in various parts of T.P.N.G. supports this conclusion.

R.R.E. Field , "Industrial Organisation in Papua and New Guinea" , Industrial Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, Feb., 1967, p. 22.