Anti-Union Employer Strategy and
Australian Labour History
Edited by Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore
Private Detectives, Blacklists and Company Unions: Anti-Union Employer Strategy and Australian Labour History
Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore
Silicosis, Mechanisation and the Demise of Sydney’s Rockchoppers’ Union, 1908-18
Peter Sheldon
Anti-Union or Pro-Property? Worker Surveillance and Gold Theft in Western Australian Gold Mines, 1899-1920
Naomi Segal
Employee Participation and Labour Representation: ICI Works Councils in Australia, 1942-75
Raymond Markey and Greg Patmore
CRA/Rio Tinto in the 1990s: A Decade of Deunionisation
Bruce Hearn Mackinnon
How Many of These Are Anti-Union Practices? A US Perspective
George Strauss
Other Articles
‘Harmony … between the Employer and Employed’: Employer Support for Union Formation in Brisbane, 1857-90
Bradley Bowden
Fremantle in Slow Motion: Winning Back the Melbourne Waterfront, 1919
Robert Bollard
The Australian Left’s Support for the Creation of the State of Israel, 1947-48
Philip Mendes
The Cairns Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League
Sue Taffe
Reports
The ACTU Congress of 2009
Ed Davis
Labour History in the New Century: 11th National Labour History Conference
Peter Franks
Address
American Labour Law as a Model for Australia? Or, Can You Get Here From There?
David Brody
Obituary
John Peter Maynes (15.03.1923 – 14.04.2009)
Keith Harvey
Book Reviews
John Docker, The Origins of Violence (Rebecca Cameron)
Ann Curthoys, Ann Genovese & Alexander Reilly, Rights and Redemption: History, Law and Indigenous People (Libby Connors)
Bain Attwood, Possession: Batman’s Treaty and the Matter of History (Tim Rowse)
Arnold J. Meagher, The Coolie Trade: The Traffic in Chinese Laborers to Latin America 1847-1874 (Kathleen López)
Diane Kirkby, Voices from the Ships: Australia’s Seafarers and Their Union (Tom Sheridan)
Bradley Bowden, Against All Odds: The History of the United Firefighters Union in Queensland, 1917-2008 (Bradon Ellem)
Humphrey McQueen, Framework of Flesh: Builders’ Labourers Battle for Health & Safety (Michael Quinlan)
Gary Daniels & John McIlroy (eds), Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World (Peter Fairbrother)
Anthony Forsyth & Andrew Stewart (eds), Fair Work: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy (Braham Dabscheck)
Frank Stilwell & Kirrily Jordan, Who Gets What? Analysing Economic Inequality in Australia (Helen Masterman-Smith)
Helen Masterman-Smith & Barbara Pocock, Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia (Therese Jefferson)
Colin Holden & Richard Trembath, Divine Discontent: The Brotherhood of St Laurence: A History (Andrew R. St. John)
Mike Sanders, The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History (Paul A. Pickering)
Martin Crotty & David Andrew Roberts (eds), Turning Points in Australian History;
Martin Crotty & David Andrew Roberts (eds), The Great Mistakes of Australian History (Robert Bollard)
Philippa Mein Smith, Peter Hempenstall & Shaun Goldfinch, Remaking the Tasman World (James Bennett)
Madeline Grey, Challenging Women: Towards Equality in the Parliament of Victoria;
Marian Sawer, Making Women Count: A History of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in Australia (Cathy Jenkins)
Tony Harris, Basket Weaver and True Believers: Making and Unmaking the Labor Left in Leichhardt Municipality, 1970-1991 (Geoffrey Robinson)
Rodney Smith, Against the Machines: Minor Parties and Independents in New South Wales, 1910-2006 (Sylvia Hale)
Margot O’Neill, Blind Conscience (Eileen Pittaway)
Brigid Rooney, Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life (David Wolstencroft)
Robert Service, Comrades: Communism: A World History (Neville Kirk)
Frank Cain, Terrorism & Intelligence in Australia: A History of ASIO & National Surveillance (Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones)
Daniel Rosenberg, Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period: A Family Memoir (Peter Meyer Filardo)
Bobbie Oliver, Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism (Lenore Coltheart)
Peter Bastian, Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man;
Edward W. Humphreys, Andrew Fisher: The Forgotten Man (Nick Dyrenfurth)
David S. Bird, J.A. Lyons: The Tame Tasmanian: Appeasement and Rearmament in Australia 1932-39 (Christopher Waters)
Kim E. Beazley, Father of the House: The Memoirs of Kim E. Beazley (Bobbie Oliver)
Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, The Biography, Volume 1 (Jim Davidson)
Quentin Beresford, The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke (Jacqueline Dickenson)
Book Notes
Marcel van der Linden, Workers of the World: Essays Towards a Global Labor History (Marilyn Lake)
Bernadette Brennan (ed.), Just Words? Australian Authors Writing for Justice (Ian Syson)
Labour History in Song
Eveleigh Railway Workshops
John Warner