Breen Creighton is a Professor of Law at RMIT University in Australia. He has written extensively on employment law, equal opportunity law, international labour law, industrial law and occupational health and safety, and is joint-author of two of the leading texts on Labor Law in Australia.Anthony Forsyth is Associate Professor & Director, Juris Doctor Programs, at RMIT University, Australia. He is also a Co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law, and the co-author of several books including Navigating the Fair Work Laws (2010). He is one of Australia’s leading researchers on statutory systems of collective bargaining, and has carried out numerous comparative studies of Australian, Canadian and United States collective bargaining law.

"Captures well the emerging global trend towards collectivization legislation as portrayed by Australia’s Fair Work Act of 2009 and comprehensively subjects that trend to the scrutiny of comparative law perspective." – Paul Secunda, Marquette University, USA

• 1. Rediscovering Collective Bargaining Breen Creighton and Anthony Forsyth 2. Collective Bargaining and Agreement-Making in Australia: Evolution of the Legislative Framework and Practice Peter Gahan and Andreas Pekarek 3. International Labour Standards and Collective Bargaining under the Fair Work Act 2009 Breen Creighton 4. The Role of Fair Work Australia in Facilitating Collective Bargaining Richard Naughton 5. The Mechanics of Agreement Making under the Fair Work Act 2009: Promoting Good Faith Bargaining and Genuine Agreement Amanda Coulthard 6. The Relationship between Protected Industrial Action, Recognition and Bargaining in Good Faith under the Fair Work Act 2009 Shae McCrystal 7. Getting to the Table? Fair Work, Unions and Collective Bargaining Rae Cooper and Bradon Ellem 8. Industrial Conflict with Awards, Choices and Fairness David Peetz 9. Government as Industrial Relations Role Model: Promotion of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Cooperation by Non-Legislative Mechanisms John Howe 10. Comparing Purposes and Concepts in United States and Australian Collective Bargaining Law Anthony Forsyth 11. Recognition in Respect of Bargaining in the United Kingdom: Collective Autonomy and Political Neutrality in Context Alan Bogg and Tonia Novitz 12. The Canadian Conception of Collective Representation and Bargaining Sara Slinn 13. After EFCA, What Next for Unions? The Future of Labour Law Reform and of Collective Bargaining in the United States John Logan 14. Collective Bargaining and Food Faith Obligations in New Zealand Pam Nuttall Notes on Contributors Notes Bibliography Index