Peter Fairbrother

Professor Peter Fairbrother

Honorary Professor

Details

Research fields

  • 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
  • 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 4407 Policy and administration
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 4404 Development studies
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 3903 Education systems
  • 3304 Urban and regional planning
  • 4303 Historical studies

Supervisor projects

  • Addressing Trade Union Barriers to Organising Devalued and Labour-intensive Workforces: A Study of Disability Support Workers in Victoria, Australia
  • 2 Mar 2015
  • Decision-Making Profiles in Couples Preparing for Long-Term Bushfire Events
  • 1 Sep 2014

Teaching interests

Global political economy; Global trade unionism; Politics and trade unionism; Sector restructuring and decomposition - steel, public services, ports and logistics; Workplace and union learning and training.

Research interests

Business and Management, Sociology, Policy and Administration, Other studies in Human Society, Human Geography, Political Science
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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.