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Centre for Work + Life publications

 

The CWL's commitment to research is reflected in the range of its publications. Selected publications are available as PDF and Word document files for download below (download Adobe Acrobat).


Reports

Submission to the 2020 Summit: Strengthening communities and supporting working families (PDF 347 kb)
Barbara Pocock, submission to 2020 Summit, Australian Parliament House, 19–20 April 2008.
Also see Barbara Pocock's commentary on the 2020 Summit (PDF 134 kb)

Work, family and the proposed National Employment Standards: a submission to the Australian government (PDF 407 kb)
Barbara Pocock and Jude Elton, Centre for Work + Life, HRISS, 2008.

A time to act: paid maternity leave for all South Australian women (PDF 286 kb)
Supplementary submission to the Select Committee on Balancing Work and Life Responsibilities, August 2007
Barbara Pocock, Centre for Work + Life Discussion Paper No 4/07.

Women and WorkChoices: Impacts on the Low Pay Sector (Full Report) (PDF 3.28 MB) 
Launched Australian Parliament House Canberra, 13 August.
Jude Elton et al, Centre for Work + Life, HRISS, 2007

Women and WorkChoices: Impacts on the Low Pay Sector (Summary Report) (PDF 2.77 MB)
Launched Australian Parliament House Canberra, 13 August.
Jude Elton et al, Centre for Work + Life, HRISS, 2007

Not fair, no choice: the impact of WorkChoices on twenty South Australian workers and their households (PDF 668 kb)
Jude Elton and Barbara Pocock, Centre for Work + Life, HRISS, 2007

2007 benchmarks: work and family policies in election 2007 (PDF 86 kb)
Work + Family Policy Roundtable

Work, life and time: the Australian Work and Life Index 2007 (PDF 1258kb)
Work-Life in Australia: Outcomes from the Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI) 2007
Barbara Pocock, Natalie Skinner and Philippa Williams

The Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI): concepts, methodology and rationale (PDF 226kb)
Discussion Paper No 1/07, May 2007

Early signs: the impact of WorkChoices on work and family (PDF 173kb)
First annual update on the impact of WorkChoices on work and family in Australia - Centre for Work + Life, report to Industrial Relations Victoria - Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Victorian Government, October 2006 

Fitting it all together: work, home and community in two Australian master-planned communities (PDF 339 kb)
Philippa Williams and Barbara Pocock, Work, Housing, Services and Community Project first report, September 2006. Discussion papers

Living low paid: some experiences of Australian childcare workers and cleaners  (PDF 92 kb)
Helen Masterman-Smith, Robyn May and Barbara Pocock, CWL Discussion Paper 1/06, June 2006.

Work, families and affordable housing (PDF 197 kb)
Barbara Pocock and Helen Masterman-Smith, CWL Discussion Paper 2/06, June 2006.

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Books

Kids countKids count: better early childhood education and care in Australia
Edited by Elizabeth Hill, Barbara Pocock and Alison Elliott
Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2007
Order at http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/sup/9781920898700

 


 

The labour market ate my babiesThe labour market ate my babies: work, children and a sustainable future
Barbara Pocock
Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, 2006
Order at http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781862876040

 

 

Conference papers and other presentations

Barbara Pocock, 'Work and the health and well-being of children: four essential pillars for better outcomes in Australia' (PDF 452 kb)
HDA Oration, Healthy Development Adelaide, State Library of South Australia, 12 June 2008.
PowerPoint presentation (1.6 MB)

Barbara Pocock, 'Work–life balance in Australia?' (PDF 458 kb)
Paper presented at international workshop Work–Life Balance in Japan, Australia and Canada, Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, 16 March 2008.

Barbara Pocock, ‘The regulation of women’s employment in Australia: what lessons for China?’ (PDF 206 kb)
Paper presented at Women’s Labour Rights Workshop held by the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) in cooperation with the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, 20–23 November 2007. Also available here in Chinese (PDF 318 kb).

Barbara Pocock, 'Happiness speech'
Presented at 'Happiness and its Causes' Conference, Sydney, June 2007.
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Overview of research on work–life balance in Australia (PDF 504 kb)
Hideki Nakazato, Konan University, Kobe, Japan, 2007

Jobs care and justice: a fair work regime for Australia (PDF 435 kb)
Clare Burton Memorial lecture 2006 by Professor Barbara Pocock

Health, well-being and working poverty (PowerPoint 1 MB)
Helen Masterman-Smith with Jude Elton, presented at Making Research Matter: Translating Research into Health Policy and Practice, South Australian Public Health and Health Promotion Conference, Adelaide, 21 October 2006.

Low pay in a prosperous land (PowerPoint 1.66 MB)
Helen Masterman-Smith, PowerPoint presentation of paper presented at The Growing Divide, South Australian Financial Counsellors’ Association annual conference, Adelaide, 21 September 2006.

 

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