“A Calculating Blow”: The 1937 Melbourne Stay-In Strike
Phillip Deery
Mobility and Labour in the Colonial Prison, India c. 1820–70s
Nabhojeet Sen
Lost Debates: The Australian Labor Party and World War I, 1918
Murray Perks
Compensation Hid behind Asbestos Walls: Class, Protest, and Justice in the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales
James Watson
The Australian Railways Union and Rank and File Democracy in New South Wales, 1925–60
Joseph Stark
The 1913–14 Dryland Agriculture Strike in New South Wales
Robert Tierney
HISTORICAL NOTE
Resisting the Anti-Welfare State Backlash: The Australian Council of Social Service’s Social Welfare Advocacy, 1975–83
Philip Mendes
OBITUARIES
Fay Marles (1926–2024): Trail Blazer, Feminist, Changemaker
Mary Crooks
Les Louis (1929–2025): Labour Historian
Peter Love
BOOK REVIEWS
Gary S. Cross, Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal (Stephen Alomes)
Michael Easson, In Search of John Christian Watson: Labor’s First Prime Minister (D. A. Clancy)
Alex Ettling and Iain McIntyre, eds, Knocking the Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia (Frank Bongiorno)
Hannah Forsyth, Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Christopher Sheil)
Kate Laing, Sisters in Peace: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia, 1915–2015 (Hannah Viney)
Iola Mathews, Race Mathews: A Life in Politics (Chris Monnox)
Denis Murphy, Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry (Lewis Fitz-Gerald)
Michael Quinlan, Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851–1880 (Sean Scalmer)
Imogen Richards, Gearóid Brinn and Callum Jones, Global Heating and the Australian Far Right (Frank Bongiorno)
James Robb, To Free the World: Harry Holland and the Rise of the Labour Movement in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (Bobbie Oliver)
Nina Trige Andersen, Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations 1950–2015 (Diane Kirkby)
COVER ILLUSTRATION
Stay-In Strikers Resting in Hammocks at the South Melbourne Gasworks
Herald (Melbourne), 19 August 1937, 1. Courtesy of Alamy, image 2HX58YP