Bradon Ellem

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

Research Interests

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