Power and Scale: The Shifting Geography of Industrial Relations Law in Australia

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Weller, Sally Anne (2007) Power and Scale: The Shifting Geography of Industrial Relations Law in Australia. Antipode, 39 (5). pp. 896-919. ISSN 0066-4812

Abstract

In an increasingly complex literature exploring the geographies of socially constructed scale, interest has focused on the relationship between scale, power and the contested political terrains through which these relations are played out. In this paper, I argue that these interactions must be understood in specific contexts, where shifts in scale are inextricably linked to shifts in the sources and instruments of power. By applying a scale perspective to the analysis of recent industrial relations legislation in Australia, I show that the nature and direction of rescaling is “fixed” by the powers of institutional actors and the scope of their jurisdictions. I then draw on the distinctively scaled relations of the Australian context to assess the extent to which Australia's national rescaling processes can be seen as representing a process of convergence toward universal “spaces of neoliberalism”.

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Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/3439
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00558.x
Official URL http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j...
Subjects Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES)
Historical > FOR Classification > 1401 Economic Theory
Historical > SEO Classification > 9199 Other Economic Framework
Keywords ResPubID13801, power and scale, industrial relations, neoliberalism, legal geographies
Citations in Scopus 24 - View on Scopus
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