The Precarious Working Life of Muriel Heagney, Labour Activist
Jackie Dickenson and Rosemary Francis
The Novelist as Labour Force Manager: Nevil Shute
Malcolm Abbott and Jill Bamforth
Cultivating the “Proletarian Outlook”: Towards a History of the Left in Central Australia, 1920–75
Jason Gibson
How to Solve a Crisis? The 1977 Metal Unions Seminar on the Role of the Industries Assistance Commission
Brett Heino
Australian Union Transformation and the Challenge for Labour Historians
Bradley Bowden
ROUNDTABLE
Assessing the Accord and Labor’s Role in Neoliberalism
Sarah Gregson, Frank Bongiorno, Ian Hampson, Lee Rhiannon, Tim Lyons and Elizabeth Humphrys
RESEARCH NOTES
An Archivist’s Experience of Processing the Bernie Taft Collection at the University of Melbourne Archives
Jane Beattie
Tribune on Trove: A New Digital Resource
David McKnight
CONFERENCE REPORT
Activism, Struggle and Labour History: The 16th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Phoebe Kelloway
BOOK REVIEWS
Marilyn Lake, Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (Robyn Muncy)
Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert, eds, General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th–21st Centuries (Peter Limb)
Julie Suares, JB Chifley: An Ardent Internationalist (James Curran)
Angela Woollacott, Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician Who Changed Australia (Carol Johnson)
Mary McEvoy, Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century (Lisa Milner)
John Callow, Our Mary: The Life of Mary Turner, 1938–2017 (Sandra Stanley Holton)
Neil Redfern, Social-Imperialism in Britain: The Lancashire Working Class and Two World Wars (Daniel Edmonds)
Philip Morgan, Hitler’s Collaborators: Choosing Between Bad and Worse in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe (Andrew Moore)
Raymond Caballero, McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks (Braham Dabscheck)
Brian Toohey, Secret: The Making of Australia’s Security State (David Lee)
Jared Davidson, Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand, 1914–1920 (David Littlewood)
Sarah Gaitanos, Shirley Smith: An Examined Life (Kerry Taylor)
Iola Mathews, Winning for Women: A Personal Story (Judith Smart)
Geoff Robinson, Being Left-Wing in Australia: Identity, Culture and Politics after Socialism (Frank Bongiorno)
Paddy Manning, Inside the Greens: The Origins and Future of the Party, the People and the Politics (James C. Murphy)
Andy Heintz, ed., Dissidents of the International Left (Rowan Cahill)
Tobias Higbie, Labor’s Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life (Braham Dabscheck)
Bobbie Oliver, A Natural Battleground: The Fight to Establish a Rail Heritage Centre at Western Australia’s Midland Railway Workshops (Chris McConville)
James Tyner, Dead Labor: Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death (Christopher Sheil)