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Superannuation was once a privilege granted only to company head
office staff and career public servants. Now in Australia nearly
all workers have access to employer-contributed superannuation, and
it is a fundamental pillar of Australia's retirement income
system.Workers' Capital tells the story of the Australian
superannuation revolution led by trade unions in the 1980s. After a
series of hard-fought industrial campaigns, an enormous financial
industry was created, involving hundreds of thousands of employers
and covering millions of fund members. From having one of the worst
retirement savings systems in the developed world, in three decades
Australia had one of the best. Now the funds held in Australian
superannuation accounts exceed the entire market capitalisation of
all the companies on the Australian Stock Exchange.Drawing on
interviews with the key players and extensive archival research,
Workers' Capital is the first systematic history of the unique
Australian system of industry superannuation.'Startling and
informative-I thought I knew a lot about the industry
superannuation phenomenon, but this one took me by surprise. For a
topic so important, a real page-turner.' Gerard Noonan, Chair of
Media Super, former editor of Australian Financial Review
This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the
development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period, bringing
together linguistic, historical and archaeological perspectives on
early inscriptions, making them more accessible to a wider
audience. The volume offers a new account of the Germanic
development of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with an examination
of the earliest inscriptions from northern Europe and the oldest
inscriptions preserving Germanic names, many of which have only
been discovered since the 1980s. The book charts the origins of key
terms such as Angle, Saxon and Jute and early writing systems used
by Germanic peoples. Drawing on epigraphic evidence from
northwestern Germany through to southwestern Denmark and sub-Roman
Britain, Mees situates the analysis within historical and
linguistic frameworks but also provides archaeological
contextualisations, assessed chronologically, for the inscriptions.
Taken together, the work re-examines existing models of the early
development of English through the lens of contemporary approaches,
opening paths for new directions in research on historical
dialectology. This book is key reading for students and scholars
interested in the history of English and historical linguistics.
In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial
societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely
accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior
and social responsibility. Yet widespread criticism of business
behavior was not an invention of the 1960s and 70s or a product of
changing commercial norms. The key feature historically has been
business scandal. Understandings of how the field of business
ethics has emerged are undeveloped, however. This book is the first
attempt to explain the conditions which saw a focus develop on
business ethics especially in the 1960s and 70s, and how the
broader field developed to encompass related notions such as
corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, ethical
leadership, sustainable business and responsible management
education. The Rise of Business Ethics provides an introduction and
analysis of the key developments in contemporary business ethics by
examining them in terms of their diachronic development - the key
thinkers, the key issues, the key institutions and how they each
contributed to contemporary understandings of business ethics,
governance and practice. Addressing the topic from a European as
well as North American perspective, The Rise of Business Ethics
will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the
fields of business ethics, business and society, business history,
organization studies and political economy.
Superannuation was once a privilege granted only to company head
office staff and career public servants. Now in Australia nearly
all workers have access to employer-contributed superannuation, and
it is a fundamental pillar of Australia's retirement income system.
Workers' Capital tells the story of the Australian superannuation
revolution led by trade unions in the 1980s. After a series of
hard-fought industrial campaigns, an enormous financial industry
was created, involving hundreds of thousands of employers and
covering millions of fund members. From having one of the worst
retirement savings systems in the developed world, in three decades
Australia had one of the best. Now the funds held in Australian
superannuation accounts exceed the entire market capitalisation of
all the companies on the Australian Stock Exchange. Drawing on
interviews with the key players and extensive archival research,
Workers' Capital is the first systematic history of the unique
Australian system of industry superannuation. 'Startling and
informative-I thought I knew a lot about the industry
superannuation phenomenon, but this one took me by surprise. For a
topic so important, a real page-turner.'Gerard Noonan, Chair of
Media Super, former editor of Australian Financial Review
Full analysis of ancient and medieval expressions of Celtic
cursing, using evidence ranging from magical charms to curse
tablets. The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing,
this work analyses both medieval and ancient expressions of Celtic
imprecation: from the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul
to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval period, and other
traces of Celtic stipulation and binding only speculated on in
earlier scholarship. It provides the first full overview and
analyses of the ancient Celtic use of binding curses (as attested
in Old Celticand Latin inscriptions) and examines their mooted
influence in later medieval expressions. Ancient finds (among them
long Gaulish curse texts, Celtic Latin Curse tablets found from the
Alpine regions to Britain, and fragments of Old Brittonic tablets
excavated from Roman Bath) are subjected to rigorous new
interpretations, and medieval reflections of the earlier tradition
are also considered. BERNARD MEES gained his PhD from the
University of Melbourne.
This is the first theoretically informed study of the relationship
between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their
Weltanschauung. The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German
ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the
tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient
Germanic history, archeology, anthropology, folklore, historical
linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical-rightwing
politics, and the contemporary construction of 'Germanicness' and
its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were
employed by the ancestors of the modern-day Germans. As these had
also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction,
Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National
Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third
Reich in 1945.With the Nazi seizure of power, ideographic studies
became directly supported by the state. In 1935, an organization
was founded within the SS to further its study, the SS-Ahnenerbe.
Most infamous as the organ through which medical experiments were
arranged to be performed on the inmates of concentration camps, the
Ahnenerbe was founded as a historical research institution before
it expanded its horizons to the physical sciences.
In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial
societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely
accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior
and social responsibility. Yet widespread criticism of business
behavior was not an invention of the 1960s and 70s or a product of
changing commercial norms. The key feature historically has been
business scandal. Understandings of how the field of business
ethics has emerged are undeveloped, however. This book is the first
attempt to explain the conditions which saw a focus develop on
business ethics especially in the 1960s and 70s, and how the
broader field developed to encompass related notions such as
corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, ethical
leadership, sustainable business and responsible management
education. The Rise of Business Ethics provides an introduction and
analysis of the key developments in contemporary business ethics by
examining them in terms of their diachronic development - the key
thinkers, the key issues, the key institutions and how they each
contributed to contemporary understandings of business ethics,
governance and practice. Addressing the topic from a European as
well as North American perspective, The Rise of Business Ethics
will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the
fields of business ethics, business and society, business history,
organization studies and political economy.
A fresh examination of one of the most contentious issues in runic
scholarship - magical or not? The runic alphabet, in use for well
over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a
variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and
magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small
items that could be carried for good luck; runic charms were carved
on metal or wooden amulets to ensure peace or prosperity. There are
invocations and allusions to pagan and Christian gods and heroes,
to spirits of disease, and even to potential lovers. Few such texts
are completely unique to Germanic society, and in fact, most of the
runic amulets considered in this book show wide-ranging parallels
from a variety of European cultures. The question ofwhether runes
were magical or not has divided scholarship in the area. Early
criticism embraced fantastic notions of runic magic - leading not
just to a healthy scepticism, but in some cases to a complete
denial of any magical element whatsoever in the runic inscriptions.
This book seeks to re-evaulate the whole question of runic sorcery,
attested to not only in the medieval Norse literature dealing with
runes but primarily in the fascinating magical texts of the runic
inscriptions themselves. Dr MINDY MCLEOD teaches in the Department
of Linguistics, Deakin University, Melbourne; Dr BERNARD MEES
teaches in the Department of History at the University of
Melbourne.
Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World
brings together a collection of studies that closely explore
aspects of culture and history of Celtic-speaking nations.
Non-narrative sources and cross-disciplinary approaches shed new
light on traditional questions concerning commemoration, sources of
political authority, and the nature of religious identity. Leading
scholars and early-career researchers bring to bear hermeneutics
from studies of religion and literary criticism alongside more
traditional philological and historical methodologies. All the
studies in this book bring to their particular tasks an
acknowledgement of the importance of religion in the worldview of
antiquity and the Middle Ages. Their approaches reflect a critical
turn in Celtic studies that has proved immensely productive across
the last two decades.
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