Research into Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand: Overview of the Twelfth Conference

Abstract

This twelfth Labour, Employment and Work Conference generated papers from a wide set of contributions: researchers from government departments, academics from each of the country's eight universities, researchers from a range of private research organisations as well as practitioners from industry This year, with a buoyant economy and a twenty year low in unemployment, much of the emphasis was on the quality rather than the quantity of work; stress, injury, the meaning of 'career' and the quality of working life as well as job mobility all received specific attention.

The following overview summarises the main points raised by 86 authors whose work is published in the 52 papers in these proceedings. The summaries appear under the 17 subject headings provided. The aim, as always, is to encourage others to both question and build on these ideas, to network and collaborate in new research in the two years before we meet again in Wellington in late 2008.