The legal relationship between civil servants and the state, is not governed by the theory of sovereignty, which is relevant in the outer relationships between the state and its citizens, though it has some, limited effect on the inner relationships between the civil servant and the state organ,...

Recent years have seen a decline in many aspects of collective industrial relations in advanced industrial societies. There has been a clear decline in tradeunion membership, and an even bigger decline of employers' associations. Changes in collective bargaining have been more subtle: a slight...

This paper investigates the changing pattern of seasonal influences on quarterly Australian data on aggregate working days lost due to industrial disputes per thousand employees for the period 1983:1 to 2004:3. The analysis suggests the presence of (a) a structural break in the stationarity...