STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN AUSTRALIAN LABOR MARKET: 21ST CENTURY

Structural changes in the labor market have always been central to debates in industrial relations. In recent years attention has focused increasingly on whether these changes have precipitated a fundamental transformation in the industrial relations systems of different countries. Some commentators have observed that the dominant forces for change in industrial relations increasingly lie outside the traditional boundaries of the subject. The development of business policies and corporate strategies relating to wider strategic concerns of the organization such as its structure, shape, and control systems have led many organizations to change their employment systems and collective bargaining arrangements so that they are in line with those wider strategic concerns