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- Title
The State, Labour Management and Union Marginalisation at Electrolytic Zinc, Tasmania, 1920-48.
- Authors
Barton, Ruth
- Abstract
While there has been considerable debate about arbitration's role in framing union strategy and tactics, its impact on managerial strategy and subordinating labour has been less explored. Electrolytic Zinc had a strategy of using the industrial regulation system, particularly the Tasmanian wages boards, and participative structures to marginalise trade unions for 15 years. However, these measures failed to completely suppress unionism and encouraged the emergence of company based-unionism. Whilst an initial attempt to form a new company- based union failed, the second was successful and its emergence and form emerged from the interplay between the arbitral system and Electrolytic Zinc's participative structures.
- Subjects
TASMANIA; AUSTRALIA; ELECTROLYTIC Zinc Co.; INDUSTRIAL management; TASMANIAN history; INDUSTRIAL relations; LABOR arbitration; LABOR unions; ZINC industry; INDUSTRIAL welfare; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Labour History, 2011, Issue 101, p53
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5263/labourhistory.101.0053