Tagged with Georgina Murray

Inspired by Martin Nicolaus’ 1968 Fat-cat-sociology speech — ‘…the professional eyes of the sociologist are on the down people, and the professional palm of the sociologist is stretched toward the up people…’ — Sociologist, Associate Professor Georgina Murray, has since her activist youth written on issues of gender inequality, class and issues associated with the […]

The Australian mining industry has been responsible for much of the growth in shift work with 52% of all employees now working them. But roster arrangements for this type of work are the perpetual thorn in both employers’ and employees’ sides. Contributing heavily to employees’ work-life balance, shifts that lead to partner dissatisfaction or that […]

Forty-plus degree temperatures could not keep delegates–including Centre members Kate Shacklock, Georgina Murray, Elliroma Gardiner, and Higher Degrees Research (HDR) students Jessica Blomfield (pictured right), Mahan Poorhosseinzadeh and Vishal Rana–away from the G20 International Dialogue on Women in Leadership held at South Bank, Brisbane on the 16-17 November, 2014. With welcomes from Professor Ian O’Connor, […]

The clarion call for feminists — male and female — from the G20 summit and the subsequent International Dialogue on Women in Leadership was the triumphant 25% for 2025. That is, we will get women to be 25 % of the paid workforce by the year 2025. We are not saying how we will do […]

Members of the Centre for Work, Orgnaisation and Wellbeing (WOW) travelled to Melbourne in early February for three days of collaboration and presentations at the 28th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) conference. Focusing this year on ‘Work, employment and human resources: the redistribution of economic and social power?’, six […]

Is the Chinese Century of capital upon us? Is it time to announce Asia as the regional centre of capitalism, a title heretofore associated with the United States? These questions and associated themes will be front and centre when more than 50 scholars from around Australian and the world converge on Brisbane later this week […]

The cross-border flow of capital arising from transnational organisations up until the early 21st century, has seen a locus of power concentrated in Europe and the United States. But times they are a changin’, and a cohort of scholars and activists from the Asian, Australian and Oceanic regions want to know how, why, and what […]