Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Contemporary Theories of Australian Politics
- Part II Politics in Everyday Australian Life
- Part III Elections
- Part IV Participation and Representation
- Part V Inside the Australian State
- Part VI Contemporary Public Controversies
- Introduction to Part VI
- 25 A Bill of Rights
- 26 Spending and taxing
- 27 Employment and education
- 28 Cities
- 29 Indigenous Australians
- 30 Health
- 31 The environment
- 32 Australia in the world
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
27 - Employment and education
from Part VI - Contemporary Public Controversies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Contemporary Theories of Australian Politics
- Part II Politics in Everyday Australian Life
- Part III Elections
- Part IV Participation and Representation
- Part V Inside the Australian State
- Part VI Contemporary Public Controversies
- Introduction to Part VI
- 25 A Bill of Rights
- 26 Spending and taxing
- 27 Employment and education
- 28 Cities
- 29 Indigenous Australians
- 30 Health
- 31 The environment
- 32 Australia in the world
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
Chapter 4 set out in broad terms class and gender theorists’ critique of socio-economic inequality in countries such as Australia. This chapter puts some flesh on those theoretical bones by exploring the ways in which education, training and employment policies and patterns help to reinforce or counter structural inequalities. Unlike some other chapters in Part VI, this chapter places little emphasis on political behaviour or institutions (Chapters 2 and 3), although their importance is implied in the sections of the chapter dealing with trade union campaigns. Other approaches to this topic might emphasise the importance of work and welfare discourses to the construction of certain social groups as deserving particular policy attention (Chapter 5). As with Chapter 26, the idea that Australia is enmeshed in the international context – in this case, an increasingly mobile international labour market – underlies much of the analysis (see Chapter 6).
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- Contemporary Politics in AustraliaTheories, Practices and Issues, pp. 307 - 319Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012