Discussion on “The effects of fluctuation in labour requirements on industrial labour relations in South Wales”

The aim in this paper is to highlight the importance of construction workers in the making of the built environment. After a discussion about the general nature of capital—labour relations in the construction industry, an example is taken of the recent history of the Builders' Labourers Federation of New South Wales, Australia. The impact of the union during the Sydney property boom of the 1970s is examined.

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Construction Workers in a Climate Precarious World

Critical Sociology ◽

10.1177/0896920519880951 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 46 (4-5) ◽

pp. 557-572

Author(s):

Freya Newman ◽

Elizabeth Humphrys

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

New South ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Construction Workers ◽

Individual Risk ◽

Workplace Health ◽

Labour Relations ◽

Potential Site ◽

South Wales

This paper examines climatic heat stress as a question of workplace health and safety in relation to at-risk and precarious labour. First, we argue that precarity is usefully understood as a phenomenon that is both generalised (all work is precarious given the function of labour under capitalism) and differentiated (experienced differently across geography, labour process and employment status). We frame climate change and labour relations as internally related and argue that climate change needs to be incorporated into the notion of precarity. Second, we explore the experience of construction workers in New South Wales, Australia, and consider the industry as a potential site of organising over both labour conditions and global warming. We conclude that climate change exacerbates precariousness, disrupting all work and intensifying and extending individual risk in various ways. Further, these experiences present a potential site to simultaneously act on both global warming and labour conditions.

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The effects of fluctuation in labour requirements on industrial labour relations in South Wales

Production Engineer ◽

10.1049/tpe.1963.0002 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 3

Author(s):

W.F. Cartwright

Keyword(s):

Labour Relations ◽

South Wales

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Political Economy and Management Strategy in the Metal and Engineering Industry

Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.1177/002218568903100102 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 22-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Tom Bramble

Keyword(s):

Management Practices ◽

Industrial Relations ◽

Engineering Industry ◽

Shop Floor ◽

Environmental Pressures ◽

Production Methods ◽

Labour Relations ◽

South Wales ◽

Management Function ◽

Key Variables

The study of industrial relations management has been a long-neglected aspect of the Australian scene. Recent changes in the balance of power on the shop floor in the aftermath of prolonged recession in the metal and engineering industry, however, make such neglect an expensive luxury. This article looks at four aspects of management t strategy: the labour relations management function, relations with the unions at the workplace, attitudes to employee involvement, and attitudes to the employment relationship. The suggestion, in the light of secondary evidence and a series of fourteen case studies in the Victorian and New South Wales metal industry, is that three variables are important in helping to explain the direction that labour relations management has taken in recent years. These are the 'labour threat: the reorganization of production methods, and changes to the legal and institutional framework. It was found that management in those plants in which exposure to these three environmental pressures was similar responded with fairly similar labour relations management practices, suggesting that there may indeed be a link between the key variables.

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β-Mannosidosis: Myelin and oligodendrocyte lesions in brain and spinal cord

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100113354 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 694-695

Author(s):

Kathryn L. Lovell ◽

Margaret Z. Jones

Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Nervous System ◽

Genetic Disorder ◽

Neurological Deficits ◽

Axonal Spheroids ◽

South Wales ◽

Pendular Nystagmus ◽

Myelin Deficits ◽

Recessive Defect ◽

Brain And Spinal Cord

Caprine β-mannosidosis, an autosomal recessive defect of glycoprotein catabolism, is associated with a deficiency of tissue and plasma -mannosidase and with tissue accumulation and urinary excretion of oligosaccharides, including the trisaccharide Man(β1-4)GlcNAc(βl-4)GlcNAc and the disaccharide Man(β1-4)GlcNAc. This genetic disorder is evident at birth, with severe neurological deficits including a marked intention tremor, pendular nystagmus, ataxia and inability to stand. Major pathological characteristics described in Nubian goats in Michigan and in Anglo-Nubian goats in New South Wales include widespread cytoplasmic vacuolation in the nervous system and viscera, axonal spheroids, and severe myelin paucity in the brain but not spinal cord or peripheral nerves. Light microscopic examination revealed marked regional variation in the severity of central nervous system myelin deficits, with some brain areas showing nearly complete absence of myelin and other regions characterized by the presence of 25-50% of the control number of myelin sheaths.

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