National affairs
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
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
6 May 2020
What can previous crises tell us about the prospects for progressive reform after Covid-19?
Essays & reportage
9 September 2019
Extract | How collaborative work can be liberating and effective
Books & arts
2 August 2019
Books | A new pattern of ownership implies a new relationship to work
Essays & reportage
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
29 April 2019
The hazards of being a woman in technology
Books & arts
11 April 2019
Books | Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers
Essays & reportage
28 February 2019
We won’t solve the biggest challenges if they’re not reflected in the work we do
National affairs
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
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
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
23 March 2017
Books | Middle age is expanding, which is mostly good news
National affairs
24 February 2017
Labor is creating unrealistic expectations by refusing to accept the decision of the umpire it created
Books & arts
30 January 2017
Books | Are we coming to the end of the relatively brief period in which salaried work dominated the economy?
Essays & reportage
8 December 2016
It wasn’t until 1966 that women in the Australian public service won the right to remain employed after marriage, overcoming resistance even from their own union
National affairs
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
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
From the archive
2 February 2016
Bertrand Russell’s classic raises old questions about new problems
Books & arts
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
Essays & reportage
10 November 2015
The rise of the New Right helped keep Labor in office for over a decade, writes Frank Bongiorno in this extract from his new book
National affairs
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
25 July 2014
Skype has shaped a professional and personal life across two continents, reports Virginia Lloyd
Books & arts
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
8 December 2011
Must Australian politicians work “tirelessly” for their communities or face electoral oblivion? James Panichi looks for the middle ground
Essays & reportage
29 September 2011
Attention-seeking technologies are increasingly blurring the line between home and work, writes Melissa Gregg
Books & arts
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
8 March 2011
On International Women’s Day, Daniel Nethery examines Australia’s newborn paid parental leave scheme