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Essays & Reportage Sarah Barns 16 September 2020 All of a sudden, proximity to the city may no longer be a critical driver of innovation and job creation
National Affairs John Quiggin 18 June 2020 For less than the cost of the Coalition’s Stage 3 tax cuts, Australians can be paid adequately to look for work or participate in socially useful activities National Affairs John Quiggin 6 May 2020 Now the pandemic has shown “workplace reform” to be a dead end, let’s take JobSeeker and JobKeeper to their logical conclusion Essays & Reportage Frank Bongiorno 6 May 2020 What can previous crises tell us about the prospects for progressive reform after Covid-19? Essays & Reportage Lizzie O’Shea 9 September 2019 Extract | How collaborative work can be liberating and effective
Books & Arts Tim Dunlop 2 August 2019 Books | A new pattern of ownership implies a new relationship to work
Essays & Reportage Peter Whiteford 30 April 2019 Australia does better than the United States in helping households cope with volatile incomes and unforeseen expenses — but there’s plenty of room for improvement Essays & Reportage Ellen Broad 29 April 2019 The hazards of being a woman in technology Books & Arts Brett Evans 11 April 2019 Books | Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers Essays & Reportage Frances Flanagan 28 February 2019 We won’t solve the biggest challenges if they’re not reflected in the work we do
National Affairs James Panichi 14 August 2018 More than twenty years before Emma Husar’s alleged misbehaviour, our correspondent had his own experience of the precarious life of a political staffer
Essays & Reportage Tim Dunlop 16 January 2018 As Uber picks itself up after another legal blow — this time from the European Court of Justice — an ambivalent observer recalls a visit to the company’s Australian head… Essays & Reportage Frances Flanagan 15 May 2017 There are many reasons why work won’t simply disappear, but we need to talk about how it is distributed Books & Arts Brett Evans 23 March 2017 Books | Middle age is expanding, which is mostly good news National Affairs Tim Colebatch 24 February 2017 Labor is creating unrealistic expectations by refusing to accept the decision of the umpire it created
Books & Arts John Quiggin 30 January 2017 Books | Are we coming to the end of the relatively brief period in which salaried work dominated the economy?
Essays & Reportage Marian Sawer 8 December 2016 Fifty years ago, women in the Australian public service finally won the right to remain employed after marriage, overcoming resistance even from their own union National Affairs John Quiggin 4 October 2016 Mistaken fears about an “ageing population” have stopped us from considering how best to respond to the prospect of longer, healthier lives Books & Arts Jane Goodall 2 February 2016 Television | Australia is back at work, and Utopia remains the best guide to what that can mean in practice, writes Jane Goodall Books & Arts Janna Thompson 2 February 2016 Bertrand Russell’s classic book raises old questions about new problems, writes Janna Thompson
Books & Arts Sophie Black 10 November 2015 Books | What is valuable? What is important? What is right? What is natural? Anne-Marie Slaughter takes on the big issues confronting working women and men, writes Sophie Black
National Affairs Joo-Cheong Tham & Martina Boese & Iain Campbell 5 June 2015 Despite the publicity given to their plight, international students are still highly disadvantaged in the workforce, write Joo-Cheong Tham, Martina Boese and Iain Campbell Essays & Reportage Virginia Lloyd 25 July 2014 Skype has shaped a professional and personal life across two continents, reports Virginia Lloyd Books & Arts Helena Liu 23 July 2014 Can work be good for employees and employers? Helena Liu reviews a new book that wrestles with problems of workplace organisation, but doesn’t go quite far enough National Affairs 10 March 2014 Detainees are suffering terribly, but the system also takes a toll on the people who work within it, writes Nik Tan
Essays & Reportage 12 July 2012 … You might need to be a university professor. Helen Hayward looks at what Anne-Marie Slaughter said in her essay for the Atlantic, and how it was received
Essays & Reportage James Panichi 8 December 2011 Must Australian politicians work “tirelessly” for their communities or face electoral oblivion? James Panichi looks for the middle ground Essays & Reportage Melissa Gregg 29 September 2011 Attention-seeking technologies are increasingly blurring the line between home and work, writes Melissa Gregg Books & Arts Sara Dowse 30 June 2011 You shouldn’t have to work for free to break into the white-collar world, argues Ross Perlin in this new book. Sara Dowse agrees National Affairs Daniel Nethery 8 March 2011 On International Women’s Day, Daniel Nethery examines Australia’s newborn paid parental leave scheme