Weighing up Australian values : balancing transitions and risks to work and family in modern Australia / Brian Howe.
Material type: TextPublication details: UNSW Press, c2007. NSW :Description: 207 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0868408859 (pbk.)
- 9780868408859 (pbk.)
- 331.2560994 22
- HD4904.25 .H69 2007
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [188]-195.
Foreword / Gunther Schmid -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social policy and transitional labour markets -- 3. Transitions in life and work in Australia -- 4. Managing risk in work and family life -- 5. Managing time across the life course -- 6. Investing in people: Building Australia's skills -- 7. Labour market regulation and transitions -- 8. Responding to lives at risk.
Explains why so many Australians feel a greater sense of risk, and discusses new directions in social policy to anticipate and help people address risk.
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