Dr Janis Bailey

B Science, GDip Second Studies, M Industrial Relations, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business Schooljanis-bailey

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Research expertise

  • Union strategy and protest behaviour
  • Unions and culture
  • Geography of union organising
  • Peak and regional labour councils
  • Gender and work
  • The teaching of industrial relations

Current teaching areas

  • Comparative industrial relations
  • Advanced industrial relations subjects
  • Asian industrial relations and human resource management

Publications

Refereed journal articles

  • Bailey, J. and McAtee, D. (2003) Another Way of Telling: The Use of Visual Methods in Research, International Employment Relations Review, 9 (1), pp. 45-60.
  • Bailey, J. and McAtee, D. (2003) The Politics and Poetics of Union Transgression: using visual methods to research union protest strategy, Social Analysis, 47 (3), pp. 27-45 (special issue on Envisioning Ethnography).
  • Westcott, M., Wailes, N., Todd, T. and Bailey, J. (2003) The HRM Challenge and the Teaching of Industrial Relations at Australian Universities, Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 41 (2), pp. 172-189.
  • Bailey, J. (2002) A Hard Tied Knot: Place, Space and Union Mobilisation, Kurswechsel (Austrian political economy journal; invited symposium on Trade Unions and Globalisation), 2, pp. 8-24.
  • Bailey, J. (2000) Blue Singlets and Broccoli: Culture in the Service of Union Struggle, Labour History, 79 (Nov), pp. 35-56 (invited symposium on unions and culture). Runner up for Best Paper in Labour History 1999-2000.
  • Bailey, J. and Iveson, K. (2000) The Parliaments Call Them Thugs: Public Space, Identity and Union Protest, Journal of Industrial Relations, 42 (4), pp. 517-534.
  • Bailey, J., Berger, K., Fells, R. and Horstman, B. (2000) Public Sector Labour Relations in Western Australia - an Overview, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 59 (4), pp. 100-108.

Book chapters

  • Bailey, J. (2001) A Symbolism to this Place: The Geography of a Union Campaign, in R. Markey (Ed.), Labour and Community: Historical Essays. Wollongong: University of Wollongong Press, pp. 388-416.

Refereed conference papers

  • Bailey, J. and Brown, K. (2003) Unions and Social Capital, in Barry, M. and Brosnan, P. (Eds.), New Economies, New Industrial Relations: Proceedings of the 18th AIRAANZ Conference, Noosa, February 2004, pp. 22-31.
  • Cuplovic, S. and Bailey, J. (2002) The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly: the effects of flexible working arrangements on social welfare professionals, in Ross, P. et al (Eds.), Employment Relations Theory, Strategy and Practice: the Challenges for the 21st Century, Refereed Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Sydney, July, pp. 231-248
  • Bailey, J. and McAtee, D. (2002) Another Way of Telling: the use of visual methods in research, in Ross, P. et al (Eds.), Employment Relations Theory, Strategy and Practice: the Challenges for the 21st Century, Refereed Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Employment Relations Association, Sydney, July, pp. 42-55.
  • Bailey, J. (2002) Power Struggle: Unions' Role in a Conservation Campaign, in McAndrew, I. and Geare, A. (Eds.), Celebrating Excellence: Proceedings of the 16th AIRAANZ Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, February, pp. 21-31.
  • Todd, P. and Bailey, J. (2002) Teaching Introductory Industrial Relations: What? How? and For Whom?, in McAndrew, I. and Geare, A. (Eds.), Celebrating Excellence: Proceedings of the 16th AIRAANZ Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, February, pp. 487-495.
  • Bailey, J., Berger, K., Fells, R. and Horstman, B. (2000) The Management of Public Sector Labour Relations in Western Australia - an Overview, in Burgess, J. and Strachan, G. (Eds.), Research on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations 2000: Proceedings of the 14th AIRAANZ Conference, Vol. 2, February, Newcastle, pp. 1-11.
  • Bailey, J. and Horstman, B. (2000) Life is Full of Choices: Industrial Relations Reform in WA since 1993, in Burgess, J. and Strachan, G. (Eds.), Research on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations 2000: Proceedings of the 14th AIRAANZ Conference, Vol. 1, February, Newcastle, pp. 39-51
  • Bailey, J. and Iveson, K. (2000) The Parliaments Call Them Thugs: Political / Industrial Protest and Public Space, in Burgess, J. and Strachan, G. (Eds.), Research on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations 2000: Proceedings of the 14th AIRAANZ Conference, Vol. 1, February, Newcastle, pp. 188-198.
  • Bailey, J. (2000) Mobilization, Collectivism and the Third Wave, Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference of the British Universities' Industrial Relations Association, University of Warwick, July, pp. 68-75.
  • Bailey, J. and Horstman, B. (2000) Deregulation Down Under, Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference of the British Universities' Industrial Relations Association, University of Warwick, July, pp. 129-135.

Non-refereed articles

  • Bailey, J. (2003) IR? You Must Be Joking!, in HRMonthly, August, pp. 44-45.
  • Bailey, J. (2003) Review of Nolan, Melanie (2000) Breadwinning: New Zealand Women and the State (Canterbury University Press, Canterbury), in Labour History 84 (May), pp. 149-150.
  • Bailey, J. (2000) Review of Kawanishi, Hirosuke (1999): The Human Face of Industrial Conflict in Post-War Japan (Kegan Paul International, London), in Journal of Contemporary Asia 31 (4), pp. 555-558.
  • Bailey, J. (2000) Conference Report. Labour and Community: Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, in Labour History, 78 (May), pp. 201-202. Wollongong Town Hall, 2-4 October.

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