Centre for Work + Life
The Centre for Work
+ Life (CWL) is part of the Hawke Research Institute
at the University of South Australia. It is a
national research centre that investigates work and its intersection
with household, family, community and social life in Australia. The Centre for Work + Life aims to generate innovative thinking about
work and life in Australia, making sense of experience in order to improve
the well-being of Australians.
The Centre Director is Professor Barbara Pocock.
News
Publications
AWALI 2009 - Work, Life & Workplace Flexibility
The third report of the Centre's Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI), which was recently released, focuses on workers' requests for flexibility and their outcomes, provides some international comparisons of work-life interactions and considers how work-life pressures affect participation in education and training.
Full Report (PDF 685kb)
Executive Summary (PDF 358kb)
Recent Presentations
The uses and misuses of economics: reflections of a recovering economist (PDF 178kb) University of South Australia's Gift of Knowledge 2009 lecture series, 3 Nov 09. A vodcast of the lecture will be available shortly hereWhat Makes for Meaningful Work in the 21st Century: what makes good jobs good, and what gives them their occasional dark sides (pdf.671kb) Foenander Public Lecture 2009 delivered by Professor Barbara Pocock, 21 October 2009, The University of Melbourne. Audio link
Conceptualising Work, Family and Community: Why Industrial Relations Perspectives are Essential, (PDF 673kb) 15th International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) 2009 World Congress, 23-27th August 2009, Sydney.
Media commentary
Media Release, 30 October 2009UniSA explores the truth behind economics According to Professor Barbara Pocock, the GFC has left us with income and status inequalities and an inability to combine work and caring responsibilities.
Media release, 21 October 2009
Loving work fuels extreme jobs: Foenander Lecture Australians love of work is fuelling 'extreme' jobs and preventing us from loving other areas of our life..
Too much work:
Working families feel the pressure (24 September 2009)
New analysis from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows how family life
is changing in Australia
and how pushed many working parents are for time....
The best way to value women is to pay them properly
Women tend not to know their own value. In an era where executive salary packages are negotiated under the table, they don't necessarily have any idea what their professional equivalents earn....As the pay equity expert Barbara Pocock says: "It's hard to pursue fairness if you don't know something unfair is happening."