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Protecting The Low Income Earner: Minimum Wage Determination In Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

David H. Plowman
David H. Plowman*
Affiliation:
The Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia
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Abstract

The Minimum Wage, in various variants, has been an important part of Australian wage determination for over a century. This paper documents the development of the minimum wage and in so doing highlights the pivotal role of the Sunshine Harvester case. That case left a number of legacies which are examined in other parts of the paper. These include the bifurcated nature of wage determination, consideration of family size, the sexual division of labour and wages, the conflict between needs and capacity to pay, wage adjustment indexes and the role of minimum wages in a decentralised wages system.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 252 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1995

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