Weighing up Australian values : balancing transitions and risks to work and family in modern Australia / Brian Howe.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: UNSW Press, c2007. NSW :Description: 207 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0868408859 (pbk.)
9780868408859 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

331.2560994 22

LOC classification:

HD4904.25 .H69 2007

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [188]-195.

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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