Fixation of Wages in Australia by George Anderson – University of Melbourne Publications, no.12 (Second Hand Book)

Second Hand Book – Ex Bookshop

In an article contribute to the ”Law Institute Journal ” November, 1927, Mr. Justice Higgins said that there was no standard treatise to which a stranger could refer to information as to the actual performances and methods of the Commonwealth Court, or of the State industrial tribunals, which worked independently of the Court, to the great embarrassment of the public. Even Australians were not in a position to ascertain the facts. There was not enough criticism  of the decisions of industrial tribunals. They might be acting on mistaken principles; but unless the principles enunciated were brought together for comparative purposes how were they to be criticized with effect? He could only call it lamentable that the intellectual effort had not been made to collect the main results of the greatest distinctive Australian effort.

The author publishes this work – the first of its kind in Australia – in the hope that it will, in some measure, make good the deficiency referred to in the above-mentioned article.

The book is divided into two parts. As the author is of the opinion that no work on the fixation of wages in a country would be complete without a consideration of the wage-fixing tribunals of that country,  he deals, in the first part, with the constitution and powers of Australian Industrial Tribunals, and in the second part with Wage Fixation.

A large part of the work treats of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, because it is by far the most important industrial tribunal in Australia; and of its principle and practices, because these are, on the whole, well established and are followed to a large extent, by State industrial tribunals.

Specifications:

Condition: Good. Ex-library — has a bookshop stickers and the stamp in interior,  slightly yellowed pages, covers with some marks but in  good condition.

Publisher: The university of Melbourne

Year: 1929

Format: Hardcover

Pages:  568

ISBN: NIL

$60.00

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