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Employers and child workers: an institutional approach

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Price, R.
Bailey, J.
McDonald, P.
Pini, Barbara
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2011
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Price, R. and Bailey, J. and McDonald, P. and Pini, B. 2011. Employers and child workers: an institutional approach. Industrial Relations Journal. 42 (3): pp. 220-235.
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Industrial Relations Journal
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John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP)
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This article explores employers' perspectives on the introduction of child employment legislation in Australia through the lens of the three pillars - regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive - of institutional theory. The study extends the traditional industrial relations (IR) focus on regulation to examine how human resource (HR) practices around child employment become legitimised, normalised and socially supported.