Robert Castle

Book Reviews : LABOUR MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE: THE EX PERIENCE OF ASEAN AND AUSTRALIA Edited by Pang Eng Fong. Singapore University Press, Singapore, 1988, xvii + 296 pp. No price stated

these institutions taking place in Latin America. The author relies on secondary sources, but omitted major works bearing on topics such as Brazilian public enterprises (Thomas J. Trebat, Brazil’s State-Owned Enterprises. A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983), in which the economic performance of public and private enterprises are compared, an exercise dismissed as impossible in this book. The author explicitly addresses the exploitation of women in the Asian manufacturing sectors, without discussing the issue in the Latin American context.

Book Reviews : The Australian Labour Market

By Keith Whitfield. Harper and Row, Sydney, 1987, xi + 230 pp.,

Seasonal work and aboriginal employment in two rural areas of New South Wales, 1921–78

24.95 (paperback) The revival of neoclassical theories of the labour market in recent years has reversed the tendency towards institutional and radical theories which has been evident in labour economics since the 1940s. Until the seventies, labour economics resisted the neoclassical domination of other areas of the discipline. Institutional, historical and behavioural factors it was argued made the labour market different from other markets and labour economists sought to incorporate these factors into their models. They sought to achieve relevance

Regulation of Aboriginal labour in Queensland: protectors, agreements and trust accounts 1897/ 1965

This paper has several areas of focus. It chronicles the history of Aboriginal employment in Australia in two contrasting areas; it identifies the characteristics of that employment and traces the nature of its change over time; it outlines the attitude of Aborigines towards their work, and the impact of that work on Aboriginal society; it also considers the attitudes of white Australians towards Aborigines and their employment. Finally, it draws some conclusions concerning the responses of the Aborigines to pressures put on them by the economy and society of the white man.