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Trade unions’ survival-based strategy has left them reliant on an outdated ideology of class conflict. AAP/Dean Lewins

How the cottage industries in class ideology did themselves in

Chris Peers, Monash University

The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Chris Peers argues that the union movement and academics debased the currency…
The vast majority of childcare workers are women. Childcare image from www.shutterstock.com

Childcare wage reforms stop short of real change

Chris Peers, Monash University

The federal government’s announcement this week on pay equity for the early childhood workforce is an important step for the childcare sector. But in the long term, it will provide little more than a stop-gap…

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