Louise Thornthwaite
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3840968 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Louise Thornthwaite |
| PRENOMES | Louise |
| SOBRENOME | Thornthwaite |
| ASSINATURA | THORNTHWAITE L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5032-1791 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Psychosocial hazards and the weaponising of menstruation
While occupational health and safety scholarship has expanded in recent decades to include psychosocial hazards, there remains scant consideration of menstruation-related psychosocial hazards and harms, which women workers encounter at work. This article contributes to knowledge on menstruation-related workplace psychosocial hazards through examining the experiences of women working in the Bangladesh readymade garment industry. The article's purp…
Ray Markey (03 February 1949–23 April 2022)
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2020
The emphasis of employers and employer associations, when 2020 began, was largely business as usual. With the pandemic’s advent, employers and associations reoriented some industrial relations activity, which encouraged cooperation while also highlighting sharp divisions. As the year progressed, however, it became increasingly apparent that the federal government’s responses to the pandemic provided unanticipated opportunities for the employer mo…
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2019
The May federal election appeared particularly important to employers’ views of their industrial relations’ interests. Employers and their associations had long steeled themselves against an unwelcome Labor victory, fearing Labor’s promises of substantial changes to industrial relations’ structures, processes and outcomes as well as taxation. Associations appeared busier than ever, representing employers through politics-related public relations,…
Unions and social media
The emergence of web 2.0 technologies led to optimistic predictions that social media (SM) might alter traditional gendered patterns of member participation in trade unions. Greene, Hogan, and Grieco and others suggested that the forms of communication and engagement these technologies offered to unions and their members had the potential to foster gender inclusion and contribute to union diversity, arguably central to effective representation. T…
Mobilising evidence in public policy
This article contributes to the conceptualisation of evidence‐based policy through providing a framework of the key factors that influence research utilisation, including those that shape the quality of evidence provided. We apply this framework to an analysis of public policy to regulate the remuneration of freight truck drivers to improve workplace safety in their industry. Recent policymaking concerning the regulation of truck drivers’ remuner…
Competitive federalism and workers’ compensation
This article builds on the competitive federalism literature by examining the role federalism plays in determining policy trajectories with consequences for public welfare in individual jurisdictions. It examines the argument that federalism encourages a ‘race to the bottom’ using the case of workers’ compensation benefits for injured workers in Australia. It finds state systems have been characterised by a downward slide in the protections affor…
Return to work after workplace injury
Returning injured workers to work is a central object of contemporary workers’ compensation systems. Injured workers’ interactions with insurers and employers are critical to achievement of timely and sustainable return to work outcomes. This article explores the interactions of injured workers with insurers and employers through analysis of their perceptions and experiences. The focus is on experiences with the NSW Workers Compensation scheme si…
NSW Workers’ Compensation Reform
The characteristics and evolution of evidence‐based policy making in Australia and other mature democracies have been mapped extensively in this journal. This article advances research on the use of evidence in policy making, examining changes in the New South Wales workers’ compensation system from 2012 to 2014. This analysis of two phases of policy change, legislative implementation and statutory review, highlights the limitations of building i…
The State, Labour and the Writing of Australian Labour History
A critical literature review of the influence of the twentieth century state in Australia on labour produces a number of findings. First, the disaggregated nature of that state - with its national, state and local levels each including various state ‘arms’ - has generated a multiplicity of outcomes and a diverse literature. Second, the field largely operates within a range of perspectives - pluralist, elite and class-based - that accepts and legi…
Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change
AbbreviationsContributorsPreface1 Introduction - Peter Sheldon & Lousie Thornthwaite2 The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite3 The Business Council of Australia - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite4 The Metal Trades Industry Association - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite5 Employer associations in road transport - Bradley Bowden6 Employer associations in coal mining - Michael Barry7 The Natio…
The Queensland Public Sector
With the incumbent Labor government embracing a recentralisation of industrial relations, public sector agencies in Queensland are experiencing a dramatic shift in the framework of employment relations. This paper discusses the approach of the previous Coalition government to managing the public sector workforce and the emerging approach of the Labor government. The comparison of contrasting governmental approaches to public sector employment rel…
Two Models of Contemporary Public Service Wage Determination in Australia
There has been substantial change in industrial relations systems at federal and state level in Australia and this has had dramatic implications for public sector wage‐fixing arrangements. This article outlines the main features of current systems for wage determination in the Australian public service and the public services of each state. While a complex and diverse set of regulations and wage‐fixing mechanisms are in place in these seven juris…
A Future for Public Sector Appeal Systems Under New Managerialism
This article examines the fate of public sector appeal systems under the managerialist reform agenda. Is new managerialism wedded to a particular shape of appeal system? Is it wedded to the dismantling of this traditionally distinctive feature of public sector employment in Australia? To explore these questions, this article examines the roles which public sector appeal systems play in human resource management and their implications for public s…
Regulating State Employment
The publication of Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital1 sparked renewed interest in contemporary managerial strategies and their origins. Much of the subsequent discussion focused on the evolution of bureaucratic management techniques in private sector firms. Despite contributions by such writers as Patmore and MacDonald,2 our understanding of the development of labour management practices in Australian public sector organisations remains scan…
Disciplinary Appeals—a Reply
Disciplinary Appeals in the New South Wales Public Service
There is a widespread proliferation of bodies such as disciplinary appeals tribunals which review prerogative decision‐making activities of managements. Yet scant analysis of their operation has taken place. This paper presents data concerning the operation of the New South Wales Government and Related Employees Appeal Tribunal. The nature of disciplinary appeals, the tribunal's decision‐making behaviour and the subsequent decisions are examined …
Unions and social media
The emergence of web 2.0 technologies led to optimistic predictions that social media (SM) might alter traditional gendered patterns of member participation in trade unions. Greene, Hogan, and Grieco and others suggested that the forms of communication and engagement these technologies offered to unions and their members had the potential to foster gender inclusion and contribute to union diversity, arguably central to effective representation. T…
NSW Workers’ Compensation Reform
The characteristics and evolution of evidence‐based policy making in Australia and other mature democracies have been mapped extensively in this journal. This article advances research on the use of evidence in policy making, examining changes in the New South Wales workers’ compensation system from 2012 to 2014. This analysis of two phases of policy change, legislative implementation and statutory review, highlights the limitations of building i…
Competitive federalism and workers’ compensation
This article builds on the competitive federalism literature by examining the role federalism plays in determining policy trajectories with consequences for public welfare in individual jurisdictions. It examines the argument that federalism encourages a ‘race to the bottom’ using the case of workers’ compensation benefits for injured workers in Australia. It finds state systems have been characterised by a downward slide in the protections affor…
A Future for Public Sector Appeal Systems Under New Managerialism
This article examines the fate of public sector appeal systems under the managerialist reform agenda. Is new managerialism wedded to a particular shape of appeal system? Is it wedded to the dismantling of this traditionally distinctive feature of public sector employment in Australia? To explore these questions, this article examines the roles which public sector appeal systems play in human resource management and their implications for public s…
Disciplinary Appeals—a Reply
Disciplinary Appeals in the New South Wales Public Service
There is a widespread proliferation of bodies such as disciplinary appeals tribunals which review prerogative decision‐making activities of managements. Yet scant analysis of their operation has taken place. This paper presents data concerning the operation of the New South Wales Government and Related Employees Appeal Tribunal. The nature of disciplinary appeals, the tribunal's decision‐making behaviour and the subsequent decisions are examined …
Regulating State Employment
The publication of Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital1 sparked renewed interest in contemporary managerial strategies and their origins. Much of the subsequent discussion focused on the evolution of bureaucratic management techniques in private sector firms. Despite contributions by such writers as Patmore and MacDonald,2 our understanding of the development of labour management practices in Australian public sector organisations remains scan…
A Future for Public Sector Appeal Systems Under New Managerialism
This article examines the fate of public sector appeal systems under the managerialist reform agenda. Is new managerialism wedded to a particular shape of appeal system? Is it wedded to the dismantling of this traditionally distinctive feature of public sector employment in Australia? To explore these questions, this article examines the roles which public sector appeal systems play in human resource management and their implications for public s…
Two Models of Contemporary Public Service Wage Determination in Australia
There has been substantial change in industrial relations systems at federal and state level in Australia and this has had dramatic implications for public sector wage‐fixing arrangements. This article outlines the main features of current systems for wage determination in the Australian public service and the public services of each state. While a complex and diverse set of regulations and wage‐fixing mechanisms are in place in these seven juris…
The Queensland Public Sector
With the incumbent Labor government embracing a recentralisation of industrial relations, public sector agencies in Queensland are experiencing a dramatic shift in the framework of employment relations. This paper discusses the approach of the previous Coalition government to managing the public sector workforce and the emerging approach of the Labor government. The comparison of contrasting governmental approaches to public sector employment rel…
Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change
AbbreviationsContributorsPreface1 Introduction - Peter Sheldon & Lousie Thornthwaite2 The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite3 The Business Council of Australia - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite4 The Metal Trades Industry Association - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite5 Employer associations in road transport - Bradley Bowden6 Employer associations in coal mining - Michael Barry7 The Natio…
The State, Labour and the Writing of Australian Labour History
A critical literature review of the influence of the twentieth century state in Australia on labour produces a number of findings. First, the disaggregated nature of that state - with its national, state and local levels each including various state ‘arms’ - has generated a multiplicity of outcomes and a diverse literature. Second, the field largely operates within a range of perspectives - pluralist, elite and class-based - that accepts and legi…
NSW Workers’ Compensation Reform
The characteristics and evolution of evidence‐based policy making in Australia and other mature democracies have been mapped extensively in this journal. This article advances research on the use of evidence in policy making, examining changes in the New South Wales workers’ compensation system from 2012 to 2014. This analysis of two phases of policy change, legislative implementation and statutory review, highlights the limitations of building i…
Return to work after workplace injury
Returning injured workers to work is a central object of contemporary workers’ compensation systems. Injured workers’ interactions with insurers and employers are critical to achievement of timely and sustainable return to work outcomes. This article explores the interactions of injured workers with insurers and employers through analysis of their perceptions and experiences. The focus is on experiences with the NSW Workers Compensation scheme si…
Unions and social media
The emergence of web 2.0 technologies led to optimistic predictions that social media (SM) might alter traditional gendered patterns of member participation in trade unions. Greene, Hogan, and Grieco and others suggested that the forms of communication and engagement these technologies offered to unions and their members had the potential to foster gender inclusion and contribute to union diversity, arguably central to effective representation. T…
Mobilising evidence in public policy
This article contributes to the conceptualisation of evidence‐based policy through providing a framework of the key factors that influence research utilisation, including those that shape the quality of evidence provided. We apply this framework to an analysis of public policy to regulate the remuneration of freight truck drivers to improve workplace safety in their industry. Recent policymaking concerning the regulation of truck drivers’ remuner…
Competitive federalism and workers’ compensation
This article builds on the competitive federalism literature by examining the role federalism plays in determining policy trajectories with consequences for public welfare in individual jurisdictions. It examines the argument that federalism encourages a ‘race to the bottom’ using the case of workers’ compensation benefits for injured workers in Australia. It finds state systems have been characterised by a downward slide in the protections affor…
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2019
The May federal election appeared particularly important to employers’ views of their industrial relations’ interests. Employers and their associations had long steeled themselves against an unwelcome Labor victory, fearing Labor’s promises of substantial changes to industrial relations’ structures, processes and outcomes as well as taxation. Associations appeared busier than ever, representing employers through politics-related public relations,…
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2020
The emphasis of employers and employer associations, when 2020 began, was largely business as usual. With the pandemic’s advent, employers and associations reoriented some industrial relations activity, which encouraged cooperation while also highlighting sharp divisions. As the year progressed, however, it became increasingly apparent that the federal government’s responses to the pandemic provided unanticipated opportunities for the employer mo…
Ray Markey (03 February 1949–23 April 2022)
Psychosocial hazards and the weaponising of menstruation
While occupational health and safety scholarship has expanded in recent decades to include psychosocial hazards, there remains scant consideration of menstruation-related psychosocial hazards and harms, which women workers encounter at work. This article contributes to knowledge on menstruation-related workplace psychosocial hazards through examining the experiences of women working in the Bangladesh readymade garment industry. The article's purp…
Political science (16 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Public Administration (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Public Administration (6 obras)