TY - BOOK
T1 - Living Low Paid
T2 - the Dark Side of Prosperous Australia
AU - Masterman-Smith, Helen
AU - Pocock, Barbara Ann
N1 - Imported on 08 May 2017 - DigiTool details were: publisher = Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2008. editor/s (773b) = Masterman-Smith, Helen , Pocock, Barbara .
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Why are so many Australians working more yet struggling to meet their basic needs? This account of the plight of low paid workers is a stinging indictment of our society and a threat to our social fabric. Even in an international downturn, Australia is a prosperous country. Yet many Australians are working more for less and struggling to meet their basic needs, despite being employed. Living Low Paid investigates the Orwellian vision unfolding, often behind closed doors, in Australia's working heartland. The book challenges the low wage path to national prosperity by exposing the hard realities of living low paid for Australian workers today. In their own words, workers tell the costs of low pay for individuals, families and communities and the social fabric at large. Workers are increasingly being undermined by casualisation, hours of work and exploitative pay setting methods, while enormous tax breaks are given to the rich, jobs are outsourced, unions are muzzled and job entitlements such as sick pay, holiday pay and penalty rates are scrapped. Living Low Paid offers a biting account of Australia's growing underbelly. It is vital reading for anyone who cares about where Australia is heading.
AB - Why are so many Australians working more yet struggling to meet their basic needs? This account of the plight of low paid workers is a stinging indictment of our society and a threat to our social fabric. Even in an international downturn, Australia is a prosperous country. Yet many Australians are working more for less and struggling to meet their basic needs, despite being employed. Living Low Paid investigates the Orwellian vision unfolding, often behind closed doors, in Australia's working heartland. The book challenges the low wage path to national prosperity by exposing the hard realities of living low paid for Australian workers today. In their own words, workers tell the costs of low pay for individuals, families and communities and the social fabric at large. Workers are increasingly being undermined by casualisation, hours of work and exploitative pay setting methods, while enormous tax breaks are given to the rich, jobs are outsourced, unions are muzzled and job entitlements such as sick pay, holiday pay and penalty rates are scrapped. Living Low Paid offers a biting account of Australia's growing underbelly. It is vital reading for anyone who cares about where Australia is heading.
KW - Industrial relations
KW - Low paid employment
KW - Social exclusion
KW - Working poverty
M3 - Book
SN - 9781741753967
BT - Living Low Paid
PB - Allen & Unwin
CY - Australia
ER -