Bradon Ellem
BA(Hons) S'ton; MA Warw.; PhD W'gong
Associate Professor and Chair of Discipline
bradon.ellem@sydney.edu.au
Room N330
H03 Institute Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6435
Fax: +61 2 9351 4729
Bradon Ellem's research draws upon his interest in industrial relations history and geographies of work to explore several inter-related areas: the nature of trade union power and purpose; local differences under the impact of globalisation; the origins and impact of government industrial relations policy. In particular, his areas of research at the moment are: the transition from Work Choices to the Fair Work Act; changes in collective bargaining in the UK, USA, New Zealand and Australia; and employment relations in Australia's iron ore industry.
Articles on these and other topics have been published locally and in: the British Journal of Industrial Relations; Work, Employment and Society; Industrial Relations Journal; Economic and Industrial Democracy; Labor Studies Journal; the Journal of Organizational Change Management.
With Dr Rae Cooper, he is Co-Convenor of the Union Research Group at Sydney University, a body designed to build research links between universities and unions. Bradon is Co-Editor of the Journal of Industrial Relations and an Associate Editor of the journal Labour History. He is a Vice-President of the Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales and a member of the executive of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).
Research Expertise
- Geographies of labour
- Industrial relations in the iron ore industry
- Industrial relations policy
- Labour movement history
- Peak unionism
- Union strategy