Barbara Pocock

Professor Barbara Pocock is Director of the Centre for Work + Life, at the University of South Australia. Barbara has been researching work, employment and industrial relations now for over twenty-five years. She has worked in many jobs – advising politicians, on farms, in unions, for governments and as a mother. Her main areas of study have been work, employment relations, unions, inequality and vocational education. She was initially trained as an economist. She is widely published. Her books include Living low paid, The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia (with Helen Masterman-Smith) (2008), The Labour Market Ate my Babies: Work, Children and a Sustainable Future (2006), The Work/Life Collision (2003), Strife; Sex and Politics in Labour Unions (1997) and Demanding Skill: Women and Technical Education in Australia (1988).