Issues in Industrial Conflict: An International Comparison

A preliminary draft of this article was delivered to a seminar in the Economics Department at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in April, 1970.

"Issues in Industrial Conflict: Australian Experience," The Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 9, No. 1, March, 1967, pp. 13-25.

J.H. Portus : "United States, Britain and Australia: Some Comparisons," The Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 8, No. 2, July, 1966, pp. 111-27.

See Edward I. Sykes: Strike Law in Australia, Sydney, Law Book Co. of Australia, 1960.

Negotiations, formal as well as informal, which take place within the framework of recognized bargaining units have been aptly termed "fractional bargaining" by various American industrial relations scholars and it is proposed to adopt the same terminology here. See, for example, Neil W. Chamberlain and James W. Kuhn: Collective Bargaining (2nd edition), McGraw-Hill Book Co., N.Y., 1965, Chapter 10.

Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics: Survey of the Incidence of Industrial Awards Determinations and Collective Agreements May 1968. Bulletin No. 5. Numbers Affected by Industrial Awards etc., by Main Industrial Authorities and Specified Awards etc. (Reference No. 6.25.)

See M.S. Ryder: "Collective Bargaining for Greater Productivity: Some Factors in the American Labour Relations System Possibly Generating Greater Productivity ," The British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. IV, No. 2, July, 1967 , pp. 190-7; and J. H. Portus, op. cit.

See Frank T. de Vyver : "Grievance Systems in American Industry ," The Australian Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, June, 1965, pp. 34-43; and Chamberlain and Kuhn, op, cit, pp. 141-61.

Leicester Webb : "Trade Unions at the Crossroads: Some Lessons of the New Zealand Strike ," The Australian Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, December, 1951, pp. 45-56.

L.G. Matthews : "Advocacy in Industrial Arbitration," The Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 11, No. 1, March, 1969, p. 6.

Desmond W. Oxnam : "Issues in Industrial Conflict: Australian Experience, 1913-1963," op. cit., pp. 24-5.