Barratt, Tom
and Bradon Ellem. 2019. “Temporality and the Evolution of GPNs: Remaking BHP’s
Pilbara Iron Ore Network.” Regional Studies. Published online on 4 April: 1-10.
Sunday 30 June 2019
Ellem, Sandstrom and Persson (2019) European Journal of Industrial Relations
Ellem, Bradon, Johan
Sandstrom and Curt Persson. 2019. “Neoliberal Trajectories in Mining:
Comparing Malmfälten and the Pilbara.” European Journal of
Industrial Relations. First published on 9 May: 1-16.
We compare the iron ore sectors and mining regions of Malmfälten in Sweden and the Pilbara in Australia. Both are physically isolated and the product is economically vital, but we find differences in industrial relations which accord with what would be expected in coordinated and liberal market economies. A closer examination, attentive to history and geography and in which changes in institutional form and function are highlighted, reveals, however, that these differences are more apparent than real, and that there is a common neoliberal trajectory. This analysis also suggests that changes in these sites at times drive transformations in national industrial relations.
Keywords Australia, comparative industrial relations, geography, history, mining, neoliberalism, region, sector, Sweden
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