Wheels and Deals
Wheels and Deals

Author: Robert Conlon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1351775561

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This title was first published in 2001. The emergence and development of automobile production in Australia was a long, drawn out and costly business for car buyers and taxpayers. Wheels and Deals, is the story of some of the causes and effects of Australian Government policies on the local development of one of the most significant industries of the 20th century.

The Future of Work and Technology
The Future of Work and Technology

Author: Andreas Cebulla

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-12-20

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 100382465X

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This book examines how global technological advances shape the way we work and allocate work today, and how we might do so in the future, exploring advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, green technology and implications for workforce skills and future welfare. It uses Australia as a case study, contrasting the country’s experience to those elsewhere. The book is a cross-disciplinary collaboration that brings together the expertise of engineers, data scientists, economists and sociologists. The reader is offered an overview of the current uses of advanced digital technologies and what it means for today’s workforce, society and economy. The book also looks to the future. Current uses of advanced technologies lag its already existing capability. The contributions note potential future applications of technology and the economic, social and workplace implications of technological change. This book should be of interest to anyone studying and wishing to better understand what work might look like in the future and how we might prepare for likely changes.

The Australian Motor Industry
The Australian Motor Industry

Author: Peter C. Stubbs

Publisher: Melbourne : Cheshire for the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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A Future in Manufacturing
A Future in Manufacturing

Author: David Walters

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13:

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When asked for a view for the prospects for the Australian automotive industry’s survival while addressing the Australian British Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne, 11 April 2013, Jac Nasser, current chairman of BHP-Billiton gave a number of concerns that had influenced his change of mind. He cited; an exchange rate at a 30 year high, an above average level of costs in the industry, world-wide excess capacity in the industry, and weak Japanese and Euro Bloc currencies. He suggested that if a major manufacturer was to leave the Australian industry the impact of that on the component supplier infra-structure would be severely damaging resulting in a loss of scale (which is marginal at the moment –authors’ note) and consequently would be the end of automobile manufacturing in Australia. The automotive industry is not alone in facing this problem; years of outsourcing labour intensive activities abdicated responsibility for the future of Australian manufacturing such that in not many years’ time we will be struggling to catch up as Asian manufacturing moves into the high value low volume sectors of high value added industry sectors.