Labour after the great complacence : unsustainable employment portfolios in the USA, the UK and Australia.

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Labour after the Great Complacence: Unsustainable employment portfolios in the USA, the UK and Australia.1

John Buchanan1,Gary Dymski2, Julie Froud3, Sukhdev Johal4 and Karel Williams5,

Paper prepared for Research & Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence in partnership with the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney Business School University of California, Riverside Manchester Business School School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London Centre for Research in Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester

Excellent research assistance in the production of this paper was provided by Serena Yu of the Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney Business School.