Centre for Future Work
The Centre for Future Work is an initiative of the Australia Institute, to conduct and publish progressive economic research on work, employment, and labour markets.
It serves as a unique centre of excellence on the economic issues facing working people: including the future of jobs, wages and income distribution, skills and training, sector and industry policies, globalisation, the role of government, public services, and more.
The Centre will also develop timely and practical policy proposals to help make the world of work better for working people and their families.
Research Topics
- Banking & Finance
- Climate Change
- COVID-19
- Digital Technology & the Internet
- Education & Training
- Elections, Politics & Parties
- Electricity Markets & the Grid
- Employment & Unemployment
- Environment & Jobs
- Future of Work
- Gender at Work
- Gig Economy
- Governance & Government Agencies
- Health
- Housing
- Industry & Sector Policies
- Inequality
- Infrastructure & Construction
- Insecure & Precarious Work
- Labour Standards & Workers' Rights
- Macroeconomics
- Media
- Population & Migration
- Public Sector, Procurement & Privatisation
- Renewable Energy
- Retirement
- Science & Technology
- Social Security & Welfare
- Tax, Spending & the Budget
- Trade & Foreign Aid
- Transport
- Unions & Collective Bargaining
- Wages & Entitlements
- Young Workers
Initiatives
Latest Research
The Times They Aren’t A-Changin (enough)
It is past time to value women’s work equally
Lost at Sea
An Assessment of the Productivity Commission’s Report on Container Port Productivity
Related events
The Economic Benefits of Trade Unions
Prof Joseph E. Stiglitz with Sally McManus
What Next for Casual Work? WorkPac v. Rossato, Fair Work Act Amendments, and the Challenges Ahead
Professor Andrew Stewart
The Broken Bargain: Australia’s Growing Wages Crisis
Sally McManus