This volume contains a selection of papers which go back to a conference on new employment
actors held at the University of Sydney in November 2006. The book contends that employment
relations must be broadened to examine the new actors and processes and the role these play in
the regulation and experience of work. It demonstrates this in the context of recent
developments in Australia. In addition the contributions evaluate the extent to which new
employment actors either reinforce or replace the activities of the more established trade
union management and state-based actors. It is argued that an inclusion of these new actors
and processes is a more comprehensive way of understanding and explaining industrial society in
the 21st century.
