Centre for Work + Life Publications
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2012 publication and presentations
Books and book chapters
Pocock, B., Skinner, N. & Williams, P (2012), Time Bomb: Work, rest and play in Australia today, NewSouth Books. More information concerning the book and launch. Related article: Lucky Country? Book may be ordered here
Pocock, B. & Skinner, N. (2012). 'Job quality in Australia.' In C. Warhurst, F. Carre, P. Findlay, and C. Tilly (Eds.). Are bad jobs inevitable? Trends, determinants and responses to job quality in the twenty-first century, Palgrave Macmillan.Skinner, N., Williams, P., Pocock B. & Edwards, J. (2012). '21st century life - how our work, home and community lives affect our capacity to live sustainably.' In S. Lehmann & R. Crocker (Eds.) Designing for Zero Waste, consumption technologies and the built environment. Oxford: Earthscan.
Reports
NEW
Encouraging pro-environmental action: Lessons for Australian workplaces and households Janine Chapman & Helen Walton, Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
This report is part of a larger project Work, life and sustainable living: how work, household and community life interact to affect environmental behaviours and outcomes funded by the Australian Research Council and industry partners and details interim findings from five studies.
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AWALI 2012 National Report
The Big Squeeze: Work, home and care in 2012
Full Report
Executive
Summary
Appendix
Work-Life balance in South Australia AWALI 2012 Report
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Formal Complaints of
Workplace Sexual Harassment Lodged with Australian Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commissions 1 July 2009 - 31 December 2009 The report was
launched at 'Workplace Sexual Harassment: Just 'Bad Apples' or a Symptom of
Gender Inequality' Symposium held in Brisbane on 17 April 2012, jointly hosted
by the School of Business, QUT and the Centre for Work + Life.
As part of a larger ARC funded project
Sexual Harassment
in Australia Causes, Outcomes and Prevention complaint file data were collected from the
Australian Human rights and Equal Opportunity Commissions.
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What
women do: Exploring the link between pro-environmental actions, work, travel and
home
Janine Chapman, Centre for Work + Life, February 2012
This report and the following report are part of a larger project 'Work life and sustainable living: how work, household and community life interact to affect environmental behaviours and outcomes', funded by the Australian Research Council and industry partners Zero Waste SA, Urban Renewal Authority (formerly Land Management Corporation), Community and Public Sector Union and State Public Services Federation.
Who
does what? The pro-environmental behaviours
of Australian workersJanine Chapman, Centre for Work + Life, February 2012
Journal articles
Pocock, B., Williams, P. & Skinner, N. (2012), 'Conceptualizing Work, Family and Community: A Socio-Ecological Systems Model, Taking Account of Power, Time, Space and Life Stage', British Journal of Industrial Relations 50 (3) 391-411.
Charlesworth, S. and Heron. A, (2012) 'New Australian Working Time Minimum Standards: Reproducing the Same Old Gendered Architecture?', Journal of Industrial Relations 54(2), 164-181
Heron, A. and Charlesworth, S. (2012) 'Working Time and Managing Care under Labor: Whose Flexibility', Australian Bulletin of Labour, Special Edition 'Work and Family Policy in Australia: Current Policy and Outstanding Issues', 38 (3), 214-233.
Baines, D., Charlesworth, S., Cunningham, I. and
Dassinger, J. (2012) 'Self-monitoring, self-blaming,
self-sacrificing workers: Gendered managerialism in the
non-profit sector' Women's Studies International
Forum, 35 (5), 362-371.
Charlesworth, S. (2012) 'Decent working conditions for
care workers? The intersections of employment
regulation, the funding market and gender norms'
Australian Journal of Labour Law, 25(2), 107-129.
Charlesworth, S and Robertson, D. (2012) 'Policing,
Gender and Working Time: The Case of the Part-time
Detective' Police Practice and Research: an
International Journal,18(3), 241-253.
Campbell, I., Charlesworth, S. and Malone, J. (2012)
'Part-time of what? Job quality and part-time employment
in the legal profession in Australia' Journal of
Sociology, 48 (2) 149-166.
Conference and other presentations
Professor Barbara Pocock is the keynote speaker for the
2012 Women in Super National Road Show and presented
'The ticking time bomb - putting together jobs and
larger life' being presented across Australia in August
and September 2012.
Assoc Prof
Sara Charlesworth gave keynote 'Work & Care:
Australian Regulatory and Policy Innovations' to
Work/Family Challenges: EU and Comparative
Investigations Workshop Family and Work Network,
Nuffield Foundation, London, 11 September 2012.
Professor Barbara Pocock presented
'Economics, well-being and working women: Rights, Road
Blocks and Resilience'
at the Older Women's Network NSW Forum 'The Three Rs: Rights,
Roadblocks and Resilience - A Challenge to Ageism
Forum', Sydney, 16 August 2012.
Assoc Prof Sara Charlesworth, was a panel member for
seminar Public Governance Regimes in Welfare and Work:
Interpretations, Intersections, and Interchanges seminar by Prof
Mitchell Dean, University of Newcastle, hosted by
the Centre for Work + Life and Hawke Research
Institute.
Assoc Prof Sara Charlesworth co-organised workshop (with
Flinders University) on
Home Care in a Changing Terrain,
on 29 August 2012.
Natalija Vujinovic, PhD scholar,
presented a paper entitled
'Does adjustment to early motherhood equal readiness to
return to work for first-time mothers on maternity
leave?' Vujinovic, N. & Boyd, C. at the 12th Australian
Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 25-27
July 2012.
Professor Barbara Pocock presented a paper entitled 'Gender Equity And Work/Family Policy Reform In Australia' by Barbara Pocock, B., Skinner, N. and Charlesworth, S., Work and Family Research Network Conference, New York, June 3-6 2012. She also presented in debate on work family terminology at the same conference 'In defence of work-life: a theoretical idea whose time is right'
Professor Barbara Pocock gave the keynote address entitled 'Work and Life in Australia' at the 11th annual Family Business Hall of Fame Dinner, Wed 25th July 2012.
Professor Barbara Pocock presented Gender Equality and Work/Family Policy Reform in Australia: Progress and Prospects and Claire Hutchinson presented 'When Flexible Work Arrangements Are Not Enough: The Interaction of Work Demands and Flexibility and their Effects on Burnout, Work-Life Interference and the Health of Workers in the South Australia Public Sector' at the Work and Family Researchers Network Inaugural conference, June 14-16, 2012, New York.
Professor Barbara Pocock recently addressed the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada funded Interuniversity
Research Centre on Globalization and Work International Conference,
in Montreal, 11 May 2012.
Charlesworth, S and McDonald,P. 'Seeking Redress: Sexual harassment complaints made to Australian Human
Rights & Equal Opportunity Commissions';
Charlesworth, S., McDonald, P. and Worley, A. 'Workplace
Sexual Harassment: Policing the Gender Borders'.
Presentations at the 'Workplace Sexual Harassment: Just
'Bad Apples' or a Symptom of Gender Inequality', Symposium held in Brisbane on
17 April 2012, jointly hosted by the School of Business QUT and the Centre
for Work + Life, UniSA.
Pocock
B, Gender & Leadership, keynote speaker, Wayne Morse Center for law and
Politics-'Gender Equality and Capitalism symposium', Gerlinger Lounge and Knight
Law Center, University of Oregon, 8-9 March 2012.
Pocock, B. 'Prospects for restoring worker power' panel discussion at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon, 24 February 2012.
Pocock, B. 'Australian politics and policy', presented at Graduate Student Luncheon in the Law School at University of Oregon, 21 February 2012.
Campbell, I., Charlesworth, S., Baird, M. and Bamberry, L. (2012) 'Part-time
work in Australia: An uneven spatial distribution of poor quality part-time
jobs?' presented to the 26th Conference of AIRAANZ, Surfers Paradise, 8-10
February 2012.
Charlesworth, S., McDonald, P. and Worley, A. (2012) 'Sexual Harassment as
Policing the Gender Borders' presented to the 26th Conference of AIRAANZ,
Surfers Paradise, 8-10 February 2012.
Charlesworth, S. (2012) 'Intersections of regulation, gender and space in home
care work' presented to the 26th Conference of AIRAANZ, Surfers Paradise, 8-10
February 2012.
Pocock, B. & Skinner, N. 'Adding insult to injury-Training in low paid jobs'
presented to 26th Conference of AIRAANZ, Surfers Paradise, 8-10 February 2012.
Skinner, N. & Dorrian, J. 'A work-life perspective on sleep and fatigue - it's
not just the shift workers who are at risk', presented to 26th Conference of
AIRAANZ, Surfers Paradise, 8-10 February 2012
Hutchinson C, 'The impact of insecurity of flexible work arrangements on workers
work-life outcomes: A study of Public Sector workers in South Australia',
presented to 26th Conference of AIRAANZ, Surfers Paradise,
8-10 February 2012.