Contributors to this issue demonstrate the value of case studies in illuminating the experience of very different groups of workers and their workplaces. We start with Phillip Deery’s discovery that gasworkers in Victoria in the late winter of 1937 undertook an extended “stay-in” strike that caused considerable hardship and provoked internal conflict. In an episode […]
The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History is saddened by the loss of Lyndall Ryan, one of Australia’s most influential and admired historians. Her major contribution was in Aboriginal history, with an early study of Indigenous Tasmanians, for which she found herself and her work at the centre of the History culture wars […]
Labour History and the “Coolie Question” A special issue of Labour History, no. 113 (November 2017) edited by Diane Kirkby and Sophie Loy-Wilson Launch hosted by Julia Martínez When: 6–7.00pm (EST), Friday, 8 December 2017Where: Faculty of Law Boardroom, level 5, Building 5B, UTS, Haymarket NSW 2000. Go to the Faculty of Law entrance on Quay […]