Emeritus Professor Joseph Ezra Isaac

This research note celebrates Joe Isaac’s 90th year by outlining some of the highlights in his extensive career and exploring the interface between his roles as a prominent scholar and an arbitrator. Joe Isaac has been one of the most infl uential contributors to both academic scholarship and public policy in Australian industrial relations during the past 60 years. In the words of Keith Hancock “despite [Joe’s] modesty and unassuming demeanour, he has been among the most effective and infl uential of Australian thinkers.”1 In fact, along with Hancock, his former student, Joe Isaac is one of a select number of academics who have succeeded in influencing both theory and practice in the fi elds of labour economics and industrial relations not only in Australia but also at the international level. In the course of his long career, which began in the early 1950s, Joe has undertaken numerous leadership roles within academia and public life. He served as President of the Economic Society of Australia in 1969. He was Foundation President of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria in 1964 and Patron of the Society from 1988 to 1996. He was appointed to the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, chaired by Dr H. C. Coombs, which reported in 1976. He was a member of the Western Australian Higher Education Review Committee in 1991–92. He was Deputy Chancellor of Monash University from 1980 to 1988, in which he played an important role in the governance of the institution. He was visiting professor in a number of American universities and was an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge in 1972. He served as President of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia from 1984 to 1987 and is a recipient of honorary doctorates from three universities. He was Chair of the General Insurance Claims Review Panel from 1992 to 2001.2 The many honours he has received include Honorary Fellowship of the London School of Economics since 1977, Jubilee Medal 1978, Centenary Medal 2003, the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia

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• The Prospects for Collective Bargaining in Australia

  Open Access•J Isaac, J E Isaac•Economic Record•1958

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