Dr Kaye Broadbent

B Arts, GCert Higher Education, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business Schoolkaye-broadbent

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Research expertise

  • Women and unions in Asia
  • Women and work in Asia
  • Gender and work
  • Women's union organising strategies

Current teaching areas

  • Employment Relations

Publications

Refereed journal articles

  • Broadbent, K. (2007) Sisters organising: Women-only unions in Japan and Korea, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 38, no. 3, May, pp. 229-251.
  • Broadbent, K. (2005) Pawaa Appu Women-only unions in Japan, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (refereed stream), November.
  • Broadbent, K. (2005) For women, by women: Women-only unions in Japan, Japan Forum, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 213-230.
  • Broadbent, K. (2003) Sisters organising for themselves: An exploration of women-only unions in Japan and South Korea, The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 14, no. 1, June, pp. 32-48.
  • Broadbent, K. (2002) Gender and part-time work in Japan, Equal Opportunities International, vol. 21, nos. 3-4, pp. 57-74.
  • Broadbent, K. (2002) Flexibility at Work? The feminisation of part-time work in Japan, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 44, no. 1, March, pp. 3-18.
  • Broadbent, K. (2001) Gender at Work, in S. Buckley (Ed.), Contemporary Encyclopedia of Japanese Popular Culture, London: Routledge.
  • Broadbent, K. (2001) Short-changed? Part-time workers in Japan, Japanese Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, December pp. 293-304.
  • Broadbent, K. (2001) Power in the union? Part-time workers experiences of enterprise unionism in Japan, International Journal of Manpower, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 318-332.

Books

  • Broadbent, K. and Ford, M. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2007) Women Organising: Women and Union Activism in Asia, London: RoutledgeCurzon Press.
  • Broadbent, K. (2003) Womens Employment in Japan: The Experiences of Part-time Workers, London: RoutledgeCurzon Press.
  • Broadbent, K., Bamber, G., Park, F., Lee, C. and Ross, P. (Eds.) (2000) Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific: Changing Approaches, Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Book reviews

  • (2007) International Review of Social History (Netherlands), vol. 52, no. 1, April.
  • (2006) Japanese Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, December.
  • (2006) National Womens Studies Journal (US), vol. 18, no. 2, Summer.
  • (2004) Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 19, no. 44, July, pp. 248-249.
  • (2001) International Journal of Employment Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 185-186.
  • (2001) Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 107-108.

Refereed conference papers

  • Broadbent, K. (2005) Women's organising strategies: Women-only unions in Japan and Korea, Reworking Work, Proceedings of the 19th Annual AIRAANZ conference, Sydney: February.
  • Broadbent, K. (2003) Sisters organising for themselves: An exploration of women-only unions in Japan and South Korea, Proceedings of the 17th Annual AIRAANZ conference, Melbourne: February.
  • Broadbent, K. (2002) Gender and part-time work in Japan, Celebrating Excellence in Industrial Relations, Proceedings of the 16th Annual AIRAANZ conference, Queenstown, New Zealand: February.
  • Bowden, B., Broadbent, K., Russell, B. and Timo, N. (2001) After Globalisation: Prosperity, Crisis and Turbulence in the Pacific Basin Coal Trade presented at the Conference on Global Turbulence, Simon Fraser University, July.
  • Broadbent, K. (2000) Power in the union? Part-time workers experiences of enterprise unionism in Japan, Current Research in Industrial Relations, Proceedings of the 14th Annual AIRAANZ conference, Newcastle, Australia: February.

Non-refereed conference papers

  • Broadbent, K. (2005) Pawaa Appu: Women-only unions in Japan, 8th Women in Asian conference, Sydney, September 26th-28th.
  • Broadbent, K. (2005) Women-only unions in Japan, 9th Womens World International conference, Seoul, Korea, June 19th-24th.
  • Broadbent, K. (2005) Women organising: Women-only unions in Japan and Korea, 4th Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, June 13th-16th.
  • Broadbent, K. (2004) Sisters organising: Women-only unions in Japan and Korea, Dynamics and Diversity: Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region, International Industrial Relations Association, 5th Asian Regional Congress, Korea, June.
  • Broadbent, K. (2003) Sisters organising: Women-only unions in Japan, 13th Biennial conference of the Japan Studies Association Australia, Brisbane, July.
  • Broadbent, K. (2003) Australian women and work Short article prepared for the Right Now!, publication in Korean for Seoul Womens Trade Union, Korea.
  • Broadbent, K. (2001) Gender and part-time work in Japan, Paper prepared for the Rethinking gender, work and organisation, conference, Keele University, June 2001.

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