Hard Labour: wage theft in the age of inequality by Ben Schneiders (English) Pap

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A startling investigation of how some of Australia's best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.Whether it's at McDonald's, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic.

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A startling investigation of how some of Australia's best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.Whether it's at McDonald's, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billions of dollars have been unlawfully taken from workers at countless businesses, large and small.Hard Labour is an examination of why this has occurred and what it says about inequality and power in twenty-first century Australia. It tells the stories of individual workers, temporary migrants, and those without influence and connections. It also describes how many businesses - whether owned by private equity or wealthy families, or operating through tax havens or on the stock exchange - have structured themselves to avoid paying minimum wages.Drawing on years of extensive research, economic data, and hundreds of interviews, Ben Schneiders puts the issue of wage theft in a broader context to describe how the loss of worker power in Australia has led to rising inequality and what this means for our democracy. Hard Labour examines some of the shifts of power in Australian history between capital and labour - from the living-wage Harvester decision of 1907 to the Accord of the 1980s, the rise of neoliberalism, and the continuing decline of the union movement.Hard Labour shows the scale of the wage-theft problem, and what needs to be done to change what is, in effect, a massive rip-off of ordinary workers.'Age journalist Ben Schneiders has broken major stories of employee underpayments involving some of the biggest names in business ... It's hard to overstate how essential Schneiders' book is to our understanding of how worker rights and wages have been steadily eroded over decades by both Labor and Liberal governments. Hard Labour is a vital and illuminating contribution to the equality debate that deserves a wide readership.'-Chris Saliba, Books+Publishing'One of this country's finest journalists reveals how shocking exploitation has been normalised in Australia.'-Jeff Sparrow'Schneiders uses his skills as an acclaimed investigative journalist to expose the hidden crisis of inequality and power inequity that is fuelling Australia's growing underclass. This meticulously researched book is not just required reading for lovers of history, economics, and politics but, like much of Schneiders' work, is a call to arms to help those enduring working conditions that should shame us all.'-Nick McKenzie

Author Biography

Ben Schneiders is an investigative journalist at The Age. His reporting has exposed more than two dozen companies for wage underpayment, including some of the biggest names in corporate Australia. He is a Walkley Award-winning reporter, and has won the industrial relations reporting award four times. He regularly reports on work, social issues, politics, and business.

Review

Income inequality fell in Australia during the postwar period, and by 1979 inequality was at its lowest. Then neoliberal economics took hold, championed by leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. In Australia, economic liberalisation started under the Labor Hawke/Keating governments, and was accelerated under the Liberal Howard government, with its anti-union policies and increase in temporary foreign workers. *Age* journalist Ben Schneiders has broken major stories of employee underpayments involving some of the biggest names in business. While that reporting has rightly sent shockwaves through the community, it is the bigger picture of how we got here that is even more compelling. A whittling away of workers' rights and the large-scale reduction in trade union membership have paved the way for systemic exploitation and underpayment. (Schneiders also exposes how some corrupt unions have colluded with big business to exploit their members.) Shareholder capitalism, demanding ever-bigger returns, continues to ruthlessly crush labour. As Schneiders shrewdly observes, we live in a democracy, but many a workplace is authoritarian. The work of restoring lost equality will take decades of activism and commitment. It's hard to overstate how essential Schneiders' book is to our understanding of how worker rights and wages have been steadily eroded over decades by both Labor and Liberal governments. *Hard Labour *is a vital and illuminating contribution to the equality debate that deserves a wide readership. *Chris Saliba is the co-owner of North Melbourne Books*.

Review Quote

'When confronted with the extent of the entrenched inequality outlined here, only one response from policymakers and ordinary Australians is possible: This must stop.'

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A startling investigation of how some of Australia's best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.

Details ISBN1922585327 Author Ben Schneiders Short Title Hard Labour Publisher Scribe Publications Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1922585327 ISBN-13 9781922585325 Format Paperback Pages 256 Imprint Scribe Publications Place of Publication Carlton North Country of Publication Australia Publication Date 2022-10-18 Subtitle wage theft in the age of inequality Audience General NZ Release Date 2022-10-17 AU Release Date 2022-10-17 We've got this

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