To be advised 327-308 Industrial Relations. Second semester Three hours of seminars or lectures and tutorials a week. On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• extend their knowledge of industrial relations in various industrialised economies via the undirected study of books and articles dealing with theory and policy in this area;
• understand why different systems of industrial relations exist in different countries;
• draw on their knowledge to critically evaluate proposals to change the Australian system of industrial relations.

Methodology and role of comparative studies. The development and operation of industrial relations processes and policies in selected overseas industrial relations systems. Topics of contemporary relevance to the Australian system of industrial relations will be studied rather than an exhaustive examination of each overseas system; topics may include dispute resolution; consideration of the public interest; plant level industrial relations; union ideology and industrial relations; public employment bargaining; economic strategy and industrial relations. A 2-hour end-of-semester examination (80 per cent) and class assignments of up to 3,000 words (20 per cent).