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Direct linkWhaites, Michael – Convergence, 2005
Australia once enjoyed the highest union density in the world but is now facing a "crisis of membership". Trade union membership and density have been in decline in Australia since the late 1970s with a 50 percent decrease in density since 1990. The Australian Bureau of Statistics currently puts trade union density at around 25 percent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Union Members, Social Capital, Unions
Hagglund, George – 1989
The history of the recent development of worker education in Australia and New Zealand shows that, in just the past 15 years or so, very significant improvements have occurred in delivery of trade union education. To a very large degree these developments took place because of the existence of a close relationship between the union movement and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Finance, Employer Employee Relationship, Federal Programs
