Griffith University

B Economics (Hons), PhD

Member of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing and  Professor of Employment Relations

Contact details for Professor David Peetz

Biography

David Peetz is Professor of Employment Relations at Griffith University, where he has worked for eleven years.  He previously worked at the Australian National University and in the then Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations, spending over five years in its Senior Executive Service.  He has been a consultant for the International Labour Organisation in Thailand, Malaysia and China, and undertaken work for unions, employers and governments of both political persuasions.   

Research expertise

• Collective bargaining and individual contracting
• Public policy
• Union membership and reform
• Work intensification and working time
• Wages policy
• Voting and electoral behaviour
• Collectivism and individualism
  

Publications

Publications in Griffith Research Online

Refereed journal articles

• Peetz, D & Pocock, B, `Workplace representatives and local power in Australia?, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 47, 2009.
• Peetz, D., Gardner, M., Brown, K. & Berns, S., Workplace Effects of Equal Employment Opportunity Legislation: the Australian experience, Policy Studies, 29(4), December 2008, 405-418.
• Dalziel, P & Peetz, D, `A note on Perry?s reconsideration of macroeconomic evidence from New Zealand?, Australian Economic Review, 41 (4), 2008, 389-393.
  
• Peetz, D, Pocock, B, & Houghton, C, 'Organisers' Roles Transformed? Australian Union Organisers and the Shift to an Organising Approach', Journal of Industrial Relations, 49(2), April 2007.
• Allen, C, Loudoun, R & Peetz, D, Work and non-work Conflict, Journal of Sociology,  43(3), 219-239, 2007.
• Peetz, D, Collateral damage: women and the WorkChoices battlefield, Hecate, 33 (1), May 2007, 61-80.
• LeQueux, S,  & Peetz, D, Workchoices: au nom du libre choix, suppression des liberts collectives, Chronique internationale de IRES, 104, Janvier 2007, 31-38.

Book Chapters

• Peetz, D. & Frost, A, 'Employee voice in the Anglo-American world: What does it mean for unions?', in R B Freeman, P Boxall & P Haynes (eds) What Workers Say: Employee Voice in  the Anglo-American World, ILR Press, Ithaca NY, 2007, 166-180.
• Peetz, D, 'How wide is the impact of WorkChoices?', in Abbott, K., Hearn Mackinnon, B., Morris, L., Saville, K. and Waddell,  D. (eds), Work Choices: Evolution or Revolution, Heidelberg  Press, Melbourne, 2007, 23-42.
• Munro, P, Peetz, D & Pocock, B, 'Fair Minimum Standards', in M Bromberg & M Irving (eds), An Australian Charter of Employment Rights, Hardie Grant, Melbourne, 2007, 74-89.  
• Peetz, D & Pocock, B, 'Community activists, coalitions and unionism', in D Buttigieg, S  Cockfield, R Cooney, M Jerrard & A Rainnie (eds), Trade Unions in the Community: Values, Issues, Shared Interests and Alliances, Heidelberg Press, Melbourne,  2007, 127-140. 

Researched monographs

• Peetz, D & Preston, A, AWAs, Collective Agreements and Earnings: Beneath the Aggregate Data,  Report to Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Melbourne, June 2007, 42pp.

• Peetz, D, Assessing the impact of WorkChoices One Year On, Report to Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Melbourne, 19 March 2007, 100pp.

Published conference proceedings - refereed and invited papers

• Murray, G & Peetz, D, Women Miners And Miners Women: Their Activism In The 1952 Stay Down Strike, in Public Sociologies: Trans Tasman Comparisons, Joint conference of The Sociological Association of Australia and Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland, 5 December 2007.

Articles - non-refereed

• Peetz, D., Choice Cuts, New Matilda, 7 March 2007.

Articles - other

• Peetz, D & Murray, G, `"Black gold, white nights and big girls? toys." Griffith Review, 22, November 2008. 
• Peetz, D, `The gap between work and choices?, Griffith Review, 15, Autumn 2007, 153-165. 
  

Published conference proceedings non-refereed

• Peetz, D & Preston, A, Wages under AWAs and collective agreements, in Pauline Stanton & Suzanne Young (eds) Workers, Corporations and Community: Facing Choices of r a Sustainable Future, proceedings of the 22nd conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 2: Non-refereed papers and abstracts, Melbourne, 6-8 February 2008, 306-315.
• Peetz, D & Murray, G, You have us riled up!: Women's role in a 2001 miners' strike, in Pauline Stanton & Suzanne Young (eds) Workers, Corporations and Community: Facing Choices of r a Sustainable Future, proceedings of the 22nd conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 2: Non-refereed papers and abstracts, Melbourne, 6-8 February 2008, 316-324.
• Strachan, G, Whitehouse, G, Peetz, D, Bailey, J & Broadbent, K, 'Gender equity in universities: Should we be worried?', in Pauline Stanton & Suzanne Young (eds) Workers, Corporations and Community: Facing Choices of a Sustainable Future, proceedings of the 22nd conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Volume 2: Non-refereed papers and abstracts, Melbourne, 6-8 February 2008, 374-383.

Articles prepared for newspapers

• Peetz, D, 'Not a threshold issue', Business Spectator, 28 March 2008, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Not-a-threshold-issue-D5QL9?OpenDocument.
• Peetz, D, 'WorkChoices: Government no longer massages the truth', Crikey, 31 October 2007.
• Peetz, D & Preston, A, 'What do AWAs really pay', Online Opinion, 20 July 2007, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6138
• Peetz, D, 'Away with the fairness: what do the AWA numbers show?', ABC News Online Opinion, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/05/1970390.htm, 5 July 2007.
• Peetz, D, 'Two faced into the bargain', Courier Mail, 3 July 2007, 18.
• Peetz, D, 'Digging to the truth of AWAs', Courier-Mail, 7 May 2007, 16.
• Peetz, D, 'IR laws not working despite boom time', Courier-Mail, 28 March 2007, 33.

Other international presentations

• The Effects Of Individual Contracts And Collective Agreements On Wages, Public Sociologies: Trans Tasman Comparisons, Joint conference of The Sociological Association of Australia and Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland, 5 December 2007 (with Preston, A)
• Some Research Directions, final plenary address, International Conference: What Public Policies for Work in a Global Era?, Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, HEC Montreal, Canada, 26 May 2007
• La Grande Illusion: The Economic Dimensions of Radical Reform and the Response of Labour, International Conference: What Public Policies for Work in a Global Era?, Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, HEC Montreal, Canada, 25 May 2007
• 'Union responses to individualisation at the workplace in Australia', Fagorganisering i globaliseringens tidsalder, LO i Bergen & Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 5 July 2006.
• 'Brave New Workplace: How laws promoting individual contracts are changing Australian jobs', University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, 27 June 2006.
• ' Are we all individuals now? Co-operative Identity, Social Capital, Cooperative Values and Free Riding', Frontiers of Sociology, 37th World Congress of International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, 7 July 2005.
• ' Workplace Representatives, Organising and the Future of the Union Movement: The Australian Experience, Frontiers of Sociology, 37th World Congress of International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, 6 July 2005.
• "Decline and innovation in unions in the anglophone world with special reference to Australia and New Zealand", Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7 June 2005.
• "Advances in Teaching and Learning Techniques in Australia: A Practical Guide", Institute of Sociology, University of Bergen, 2 June 2005 (co-presented with Murray, G).
• "Bringing it all back home", Policy Studies Institute, London, 31 March 2005.
• "Excessive work time and pressure and the Homesick Blues", Institute of Sociology, University of Bergen, 10 March 2005
• 'Collectivism in decline, individualism in ascendancy? Co-operative identity, social capital, altruism and free riding', Department of Management and Employment Relations, Auckland Business School, University of Auckland, 1 February 2005.
• Union delegates, efficacy and union power at the workplace: New Australian evidence', International Colloquium on Union Renewal, CRIMT, Montreal, Canada, 20 November 2004 (with Pocock, B).
• 'Building an organising culture:  some Australian experiences', International Colloquium on Union Renewal, CRIMT, Montreal, Canada, 19 November 2004.
• 'The Big Squeeze: Domestic dimensions of excessive work time and pressure', Tamaki Division, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 8 September 2004.
• The Decline of the Collectivist Model and Public Policy Responses: an Australian Perspective, Paper to International Colloquium on Citizenship at Work, Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail (CRIMT), Universit Laval, Quebec, Canada, 23 June 2004.
• 'Australia', talk to international roundtable discussion on Globalisation, the transformation of work and union renewal: a comparative discussion, HEC Montreal. with Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hegel (France), Peter Fairbrother (UK), Stephen Herzenberg (US) and Charlotte Yates (Canada), 23 October 2003.  
• Working Time, Culture, Family and the Sources and Effects of Pressure at Work, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Paris, France, 25 November 2002 (co-authored with five others).