Select Publications
Book Chapters
2009, 'Vocabularies of Skills: The Case of Care and Support Workers', in Bolton S; Houlihan M (ed.), Work Matters, Palgrave MacMillan, UK, pp. 197 - 215
,2004, 'Training Reform in a Weakenend State: Australia 1987-2000', in Warhurst C; Grugulis I; Keep E (ed.), The Skills That Matter, Palgrave, Bakingstoke, pp. 72 - 90
,2000, 'The Professionalising of Management? Functional Imperatives and Moral Order in Societal Context', in Management and Organisational Behaviour, John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd, Brisbane, pp. 135 - 149
,1999, 'Between Control and Consensus: Australia`s Enigmatic Corporatism', in The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour, Mansell, London, pp. 138 - 159
,Journal articles
2016, 'Supply Chains and the Manufacture of Precarious Work: The Safety Implications of Outsourcing/ Offshoring Heavy Aircraft Maintenance', E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, 5, pp. 3 - 36, http://adapt.it/EJCLS/index.php/ejcls_adapt/article/view/115
,2016, 'Licencing and training reform in the Australian aircraft maintenance industry', Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 68, pp. 342 - 358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2016.1212249
,2016, 'Professionalism or Inter-Union Solidarity? Organising Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, 1955-1975', Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 110, pp. 35 - 56, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5263/labourhistory/110.0035
,2016, 'Professionalism or Inter-Union Solidarity? Organising Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, 1955–75', Labour History, pp. 35 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/labourhistory.110.0035
,2016, 'The Uncertain Oversight of Offshore Aircraft Maintenance: The Case of Australia', Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 81, pp. 225 - 250, http://heinonline.org.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/HOL/Index?index=journals/jalc&collection=journals%20%2081%20J.%20Air%20L.%20&%20Com.%20225%202016
,2015, 'Supply chains, maintenance and safety in the Australian airline industry', Journal of Industrial Relations, 57, pp. 604 - 623, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022185615582234
,2015, 'An intention-based model of transfer of training', Management Research Review, 38, pp. 908 - 928, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MRR-05-2014-0107
,2015, 'Stages of the Social Construction of Skill: Revisiting Debates over Service Skill Recognition', Sociology Compass, 9, pp. 450 - 463, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12266
,2015, 'How closely do Australian Training Package qualifications reflect the skills in occupations? An empirical investigation of seven qualifications', International Journal of Training Research, 13, pp. 49 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14480220.2015.1051351
,2015, 'Workforce Development and Skill Formation in Asia', E-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LABOUR STUDIES, 4, pp. 146 - 151, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000359975500009&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Slow to learn: regulatory oversight of the safety of outsourced aircraft maintenance in the USA', Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 12, pp. 71 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14774003.2014.11667798
,2013, 'Outsourcing and offshoring aircraft maintenance in the US: Implications for safety', Safety Science, 57, pp. 283 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2013.02.011
,2012, 'Industry Policy under Economic Liberalism: Policy Development in the Prime Minister's Manufacturing Task Force', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 23, pp. 39 - 56, http://search.informit.com.au.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/documentSummary;dn=955376577061037;res=IELBUS%3E%20ISSN:%201035-3046
,2011, 'Missing in action: Aircraft maintenance and the recent 'HRM in the airlines' literature', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23, pp. 2561 - 2575, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.633278
,2010, 'Putting the process back in: Rethinking service sector skill', Work Employment and Society, 24, pp. 527 - 545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017010371664
,2009, 'Valuing Skills: Helping Mainstream Gender Equity in the New Zealand State Sector', Public Policy and Administration, 24, pp. 195 - 211
,2009, 'Articulation Work Skills and the Recognition of Competence in Australian Call Centres', Journal of Industrial Relations, 51, pp. 45 - 58
,2008, 'Skills and Training: Reflections on a Recent British Contribution to Current Debates', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 19, pp. 129 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530460801900109
,2008, 'Beyond Emotion: interactive service work and the skills of women', International Journal of Work Organization and Emotion, 2, pp. 358 - 373
,2008, 'Transfer of training: A review and new insights', International Journal of Management Reviews, 10, pp. 327 - 341
,2007, 'Critical perspectives on activity: Explorations across education, work, and everyday life', Journal of Industrial Relations, 49, pp. 603 - 605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221856070490040804
,2007, 'Management Development as Public Policy: Australia`s Frontline Management Initiative (FMI) 1995-2002', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 17, pp. 107 - 128
,2007, 'Varieties of Workplace Learning: An Introduction', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 17, pp. 99 - 106
,2006, 'Rethinking Union Strategy? Reflections on a Critique of `left productivism`.', Labour and Industry, 17, pp. 25 - 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2006.10669343
,2005, 'Invisible work, invisible skills: Interactive customer service as articulation work', New Technology Work and Employment, 20, pp. 166 - 181
,2004, 'International Unionism: Recovering History, Reshaping Theory, Recasting Practice?', Labour History, pp. 253 - 264, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/27516013
,2002, 'Training Reform: Back to Square One?', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 13, pp. 149 - 174
,1999, 'Lean Production and the Toyota Production System', Economic and Industrial Democracy, 20, pp. 369 - 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831X99203003
,1998, 'Continuity and Change in Australian Industrial Relations: Recent Developments', Relations Industrielles - Industrial Relations, 53, pp. 564 - 591, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23077399
,1998, 'The Management of Organisational Structure and Strategy: The New Professionalism and Management Redemption', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 36, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103841119803600102
,1997, 'The End of the Experiment: Corporatism Collapses in Australia', Economic and Industrial Democracy, 18, pp. 539 - 566
,1997, 'The World According to Karpin: A Critique of Enterprising Nation', Journal of Industrial Relations, 39, pp. 457 - 477
,1996, 'The accord: a post-mortem', Labour and Industry, 7, pp. 55 - 77
,1994, 'Post-Fordism and Workplace Change: Towards a Critical Research Agenda', Journal of Industrial Relations, 36, pp. 231 - 257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002218569403600203
,Conference Papers
2014, 'What do senior figures in Australian VET and industrial relations think about the concept of skill in work?', in Proceedings, Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA), Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1 - 9, presented at 17th AVETRA International Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 22 April 2014 - 24 April 2014, http://avetra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Abstract-431.pdf
,2014, 'Views of skill in low-wage jobs: Australian security guards and cleaners.', in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of AIRAANZ, Melbourne, Australia, presented at 28th Annual Conference of AIRAANZ, Melbourne, Australia, 05 February 2014 - 07 February 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/25615
,2013, 'Aircraft Maintenance in Australia: issues and prospects.', Macquarie University, Sydney, presented at Global Aviation Research Network, Macquarie University, Sydney, 29 November 2013 - 29 November 2013
,2013, 'Aircraft Maintenance in Australia: Issues, Prospects and Loose Ends.', Melbourne, Australia, presented at Aircraft Engineers International Annual Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 20 November 2013 - 23 November 2013
,2013, 'A skill shortage of a certain kind: Segmentation in the labour market for licensed and unlicensed aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs) in Australia', Trinity College, presented at Austerity without end? European employment in the crisis, Trinity College, 12 September 2013 - 14 April 2013
,2011, 'Searching for the skills of professionals', Australian School of Business, UNSW, presented at Symposium on New Developments in the Sociology of Work & Organisations, Australian School of Business, UNSW, 14 July 2011 - 15 July 2011
,2011, 'Segmented skilling: distinguishing future-oriented from status-quo approaches to workforce development', Bamberg, Germany, presented at Annual Conference of the international Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, Bamberg, Germany, 11 July 2011 - 13 July 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1920006
,2010, 'Contesting Competence: Australia Enters Another Period of Training Reform', in Contesting Competence: Australia Enters Another Period of Training Reform, Rutgers University, New York, presented at International Labour Process Conference 2010, Rutgers University, New York, 15 March 2010 - 17 March 2010
,2010, 'The political economy and skills of aircraft maintenance: Towards a research agenda.', Rutgers University, presented at 28th International Labour Process Conference, Rutgers University, 15 March 2010 - 17 March 2010
,2010, 'A Matter of Trust: Quality in Competency-Based Assessment in Australia', in Work in Progress: Crises, Choices and Continuity: Proceedings of the 24th AIRAANZ Conference, College of Business, UWS/AIRAANZ, Sydney, presented at 24TH AIRAANZ Conference, Sydney, Australia, 03 February 2010 - 05 February 2010, http://airaanzweb.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/6/3/2163987/all_refereed_papers.pdf
,2010, 'A New Era? Pay Equity Prospects in Australia Following 'Making it Fair'', in Work in Progress: Crises, Choices and Continuity: Proceedings of the 24th AIRAANZ Conference, College of Business, UWS/AIRAANZ, Sydney, presented at 24TH AIRAANZ Conference, Sydney, Australia, 03 February 2010 - 05 February 2010, http://airaanzweb.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/6/3/2163987/all_refereed_papers.pdf
,2009, ''Employability' and the Substance of Soft Skills', Edinburgh, presented at International Labour Process Conference 2009, Edinburgh, 06 April 2009 - 08 April 2009
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