... regard to classification tourism will be divided into three sub-groups of inbound international, outbound international and domestic tourism (Barwick and Barwick, 2001; Dickman, 1989; Hall, 1995; Smith, 1997: 22-23). Throughout the history of Australian tourism there have been distinct tendencies, which have allowed tourism to grow and flourish. The continued advancement of public transport and the increase in car ownership have played a major ... part because of Australian isolated geographic features (Barwick and Barwick, 2001; Dickman, 1989; Jackson, 1989; Hall, 1995: 40 - 41). Jacks...

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... , and also at how the various stories fitted together into the one that we delivered with such assertive nonchalance at the many workplaces we visited. Mikhail Bakhtin had a way of describing this. Morson and Emerson (1989: 17-18) point to the distinction Bakhtin draws between knowledge and acknowledgement. Many writers, as my colleagues and I had done, take theories and "knowledge" as representative ... argument is that through the use of these reified concepts for analysing workplace change much of what is important about the experience of being a worker in the late 1990's, about the e...

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY Brief economic history During the 1960s the South African economy expanded at an annual average rate of 5,5 percent and experienced average inflation of 2,4 percent. This compared with annual growth of 5,0 percent in industrialised Organisation for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) countries and inflation of 2,9 percent. Dollar per capita income grew 73 percent during the decade. The 1970s were turbulent ... average annual depreciation has been just under 7 percent. The longer-term policy objective is to bring South Africa's inflation rate down to the same ...

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... into the 1990s. Meanwhile, the relaxation of government controls and de-regulation of the UK markets allowed freer operation of economic systems and a great emphasis on individual self-reliance (Johnston & Gardiner, 1991). During this period there was significant privatisation of state industries and by the end of 1989 unemployment had fallen to just 4% from its peak of 12% in 1984. The improved ... economy meant that more people had money to explore many cultural economic ideas. The field of economic geography witnessed the "culturalisation of the economy" (Bryson, et al., 1999, p. ......

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... accounted for a relatively large share of the employment reductions, more so than previous recessions. Levels decreased form July 1989 to June 1992 by a total of 22.5 percent. The magnitude of this drop was twice that of the average decrease. About one year before the start of the recession an about ½ year ... before the contraction, the number of discouraged workers began to increase. In ... before a recession was announced. Since March 2001 1.5 million jobs have been eliminated. Even before the layoffs began, corporate profits began a descent of record proportions. Many jobs were no...

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