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    Corporations and global justice: Rethinking ‘public’ and ‘private’ responsibilities
    Macdonald, T ; MacDonald, K ; Marshall, S (Routledge, 2013-01-01)
    This chapter argues that corporate accountability rather than corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies are more suitable for the inclusion of homeworkers in organizing, policy and ethical supply chain regulation issues. It also argues that the collective organization of homeworkers, and community-union alliances combined with corporate accountability features legislative and voluntary mechanisms to regulate the supply chain increase the likelihood of codes being relevant to informal and formal workers. The chapter begins with a discussion of homework in the global context, and examines informal employment, and contrasts CSR to the emergent theme of corporate accountability. It includes a detailed case study of the FairWear campaign, an example of an Australian community-union campaign with links to grassroots organizing through the campaign partners Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) and Asian Women at Work (AWATW). The chapter focuses on the Australian homework context and the FairWear campaigns role in promoting homeworker rights through campaigns to maintain legal protection and supply-chain regulation.
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    Taking Responsibility for Climate Change
    Eckersley, RW (Melbourne University Press, 2012)
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    EU-Australia Relations
    Benvenuti, A ; Murray, P ; Kirchner, E ; Christiansen, T ; Jorgensen, K ; Murray, P (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
    This chapter examines the development of the EU–Australia relationship from a focus on one country (the UK) and policy (agriculture) to a broadening of engagement. Engagement has long been characterised by conflict and mutual misunderstandings, underpinned by a sense of distance. For some decades, neither interlocutor featured significantly on the other’s radar screen. Increasingly, however, there has been a rapprochement based on common concerns and a shared interest in cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. The chapter examines how and why the relationship has moved from a bilateral state-to-state engagement in the early debates to an increasingly regionalised and multilateralised common agenda. It commences with an overview of the single-country emphasis of Australia in its dealings with the EU and the single-policy focus on the Common Agricultural Policy. It then examines the development of agreements and dialogues as the EU broadened its policy scope and reach and as Australia increasingly perceived advantages in engaging in a multidimensional relationship with the EU, its institutions and member states.
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    Europe-Asia Studies: The Contribution of Comparative Regional Integration
    Murray, P ; Warleigh-Lack, A ; Kirchner, E ; Christiansen, T ; Jorgensen, K ; Murray, P (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
    This chapter examines the contribution of comparative regional integration studies, with particular reference to EU–Asia relations. The chapter has three core purposes. First – and briefly – it asks why scholars should study regions, regionalism and regional integration comparatively and also sets out how we understand the key terms here, that is regions and regional integration. Second, it asks how, once the matters of why and what to compare have been addressed successfully, scholars can actually go about comparative study of regions in the global polity. Finally, it sets out how comparative regional integration studies can contribute and provide fruitful research pathways capable of contributing much to Europe–Asia studies.
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    Older workers: past, present and future
    TAYLOR, P ; Wang, C (SSAP, 2013)
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    Introduction: older workers in an ageing society
    TAYLOR, P ; Taylor, P (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)
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    Review: agendas in researching ageing and work
    TAYLOR, P ; Taylor, P (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)
    This chapter aims to provide a summary of themes emerging from the preceding chapters and to identify fresh research agendas. It sets out lessons for the social and labour market actors and for older workers themselves in responding to demographic trends.
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    Working Longer in a Changing Economy: Will Ageing Populations Mean Ageing Workforces?
    TAYLOR, P ; McLoughlin, C ; Taylor, P (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)
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    Ageism and age discrimination in the labour market and employer responses
    TAYLOR, P ; Griffin, T ; Beddie, F (NCVE, 2011)
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    Is early retirement history?
    TAYLOR, P ; Ennals, R (Peter Lang Publishing, 2011)