ABSTRACT
This chapter describes my transition from Melbourne to Sydney where I was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Management School at Macquarie University. During the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, industrial relations became a major issue. We established the Labour-Management Studies Foundation to provide a forum where significant policy issues could be debated. I became a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Harvard and MIT where the transformation of industrial relations was under discussion. I was also a visiting researcher at the University of Bochum in Germany where I conducted research on co-determination in the German auto industry, with particular emphasis on the introduction of technological change. This was also an important issue in Australia in the 1980s and is perhaps even more critical today.
