Hawke Research Institute
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Women's employment strategy (2008–2009)The Women's employment strategy research project was undertaken for the Premier's Council for Women (PCW) on 'Women's employment in South Australia: towards a new strategy for women's work in South Australia'.
The Low-paid services employment project investigated the effects of low pay on workers in the childcare, cleaning and hotel accommodation industries. The project also examined the dimensions – including the incidences – of low pay, the causes of low pay and policy responses to it and resulted in a book Living low paid: the dark side of prosperous Australia.
Professor Barbara Pocock was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship to analyse and investigate the relationship of changing patterns of work in Australia, and the changing nature of Australian households, communities and workplaces.
The Centre for Work + Life researched the consequences of WorkChoices
and policy alternatives following WorkChoices' inception in March 2006.
The centre's focus was on qualitative research with low-income workers
and the centre's distinctive research emphasis was on the effects of
labour market trends beyond the workplace for individual, household and
community/social well-being.
