The Archive, Digitisation and Labour’s History
Edited by Diane Kirkby and Claire Lowrie
The Archive, Digitisation and Labour’s History: An Introduction
Diane Kirkby and Claire Lowrie
Labour Activists’ Archival Assemblages and Resistibility in Memory Work: Emma Goldman, Jean Désirée, and Rose Pesotta
Maria Tamboukou
Recovering the History of Chinese Amahs Travelling to Britain, 1840s–1930s
Claire Lowrie
Trouble on the Roads: Using Digital Techniques to Explore Convict Protest in Van Diemen’s Land
Monika Schwarz, Michael Quinlan, and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
“As a Stewardess Sees It”: Locating Experience and Emotion in the Work of Australian Ship Stewardesses
Diane Kirkby
Panopticon to Plexus: Analysing Colonial Labour and Migration in 1820s NSW
Mark A. McLean, David Andrew Roberts, and Martin Gibbs
Becoming Visible: Aboriginal Domestic Servants in Digitised Photographic Archives from Queensland and New South Wales
Srishti Guha
FORUM ON METHODS
Digitizing the Experiences of Migrant Labour in Qatar
Karine Walther, Zahra Babar, Trish Kahle, Suzi Mirgani, Misba Bhatti, Nadya Sbaiti, and Noha Aboueldahab
Re-Writing History from the Margins: Philippine Labour Migration to and Labour Organising in 1970s Denmark
Nina Trige Andersen
Photography as Labour and Industry: Reading Photographic Archives of Indentured Labour
Paolo Magagnoli
Hidden Voices: Exploring South Sea Islander Narratives in the James Cook University Library’s Special Collections
Adele Zubrzycka
How Well Is Labour History Served by Trove?
Frank Bongiorno
OBITUARY
Ray Peckham (1929–2025): Communist, Trade Unionist and Wiradjuri Leader
Padraic Gibson, Wendy Bowles and John Nolan
BOOK REVIEWS
Maurice Casey, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals (Gerry Watts)
Jonathan Connolly, Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation (Jamie Banks)
Michael Easson, James Scullin (Joshua Black)
Mary Fraser, The British Police and Home Food Production in the Great War: Police as Ploughmen, 1917–19 (Mark Briskey)
Willa Hammitt Brown, Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack (Erik Loomis)
Lyndon Megarrity, Rex Patterson: A Voice for the North (Greg Patmore)
Eugene Schofield-Georgeson, Contract, Labour Law and the Realities of Working Life (Joo-Cheong Tham)