Longevity of the construction tradie: the role of ageing and masculinity

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published
With Australia’s retirement age set to rise to 70, will older tradies be able to keep working? A 2012 federal government skills shortage report highlighted only three trades to be in short supply as a result of the ongoing economic climate. Academic literature, furthermore, tends to focus on the retention and training of younger workers […]

Job readiness and careers: what Business graduates and near-graduates bring to the table

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published
Situated for the duration in a trajectory that scaled the corporate ladder within a sole organisation, the ‘career’ of yesteryear has been reworked. Termed the ‘new career’, paths of employment have since the 1990s been understood through a range of descriptors that reflect the contexts and strategies in which they play out: there’s the self-managing […]