Unions, community, work and family in Australia’s iron ore sector

Bradon Ellem, The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come, Crawley; David Peetz and Georgina Murray (eds), Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation

“…In this endeavour, Ellem, an accomplished academic, successfully draws on the numerous academic articles (e.g. Ellem 2015a, 2015b, 2015c, 2016) and his earlier book on the Pilbara, Hard Ground (2004), to place work, workers and employment relations at the centre of the analysis.…”

“Work, respect, belonging”: remote First Nation school program development

“…As well, New York City legally recognized 31 gender identifications (Datta, 2017) To understand what this meant to social work practice, I reviewed the available literature and searched for examples describing the nuances created by being a temporary worker. Most of the research related to temporary farm workers (McLaughlin, Wells, Mendiburo, Lyn, & Vasilevska, 2017), family impact (Dittman, Henriquez, & Roxburgh, 2016), impact on resources and regions (Rolf & Kinnear, 2013;Carrington & Pereira, 2011), resource workers (Mayes, 2020;Darow & Mandizadza, 2018;& Ellem, 2015). I found no research on fly in and fly out impacts of social work practice and the unique circumstances that affected this practice.…”