Expert Author

Al Rainnie

The Centre for Future Work is pleased to work with a team of Associates: distinguished policy thinkers, who work voluntarily with us to advance our research agenda, contribute to projects, prepare commentary on economic and labour market developments, and related tasks.

Al Rainnie

Professor Rainnie has held Chairs at Monash, Leicester and Curtin Universities. He has researched in the area of work and employment for about 40 years and has published over 100 books, book chapters, journal articles and research reports. Professor Rainnie was the founding Director of the Monash Institute for Regional Studies and Director of Research at both the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester and the Curtin Graduate School of Business in Perth, Western Australia. He has recently co-authored a report on skill and innovation commissioned by the Federal Chief Scientist for the Australian Council of Learned Academies.

He can be reached at al.f.rainnie@gmail.com.

Research by Al Rainnie

COVID-19, Industry & Sector Policies

Industrial Policy-Making After COVID-19: Manufacturing, Innovation and Sustainability

As Treasurer during the 1980s, Paul Keating lamented that Australian governments had for decades been allowing the country’s sophisticated industrial

By Al Rainnie, Dan Nahum, Jim Stanford, Mark Dean, Mark Dean Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow

Climate Change, COVID-19, Macroeconomics

Post-COVID-19 policy responses to climate change: beyond capitalism?

A sustainable social, political and environmental response to the “twin crises” of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change will require

By Al Rainnie, Mark Dean, Mark Dean Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow