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INTRODUCTION
JULIE KIMBER & DIANE KIRKBY: Radical Currents, Labour Histories
FRANK BONGIORNO: Launching The Party
RECENT RESEARCH IN LABOUR HISTORY
DAVID LEE: Labor, the External Affairs Power and Aboriginal Rights
HANNAH FORSYTH & MICHAEL P.R. PEARSON: Engineers and Social Engineering: Professional/Trade Unions and Social Mobility
JOSHUA BLACK: ‘Our Side of the Story’: Tales of the Labor Government, 2007
PHILIP MENDES: Campaigning for a fairer distribution of wealth, income and power: The story of the Victorian Coalition against Poverty and Unemployment (CAPU), 1980-1991
CYBÈLE LOCKE: ‘The New Zealand Northern Drivers’ Union: Trade Union Anti-Racism Work, 1960-1980’
ALEXANDER JORDAN: Thomas Carlyle and the Australasian Labour Movement
MAX KAISER & LISA MILNER: ‘But Separate How Can we Live?’: David Martin’s The Shepherd and the Hunter
FIONA HURD & SUZETTE DYER: Erasing the Past, or a Future of Layered Memories?
FROM THE ARCHIVES
TERRY IRVING: ASIO and the Labour History Society: An Incident in 1964
AROUND THE COUNTRY
ROD NOBLE: From an Island in a River: Remembering Vera Deacon
DEBORAH JORDAN: Writing and Walking the History of Early Women’s Suffrage in Brisbane
TED REITHMULLER: Comrade Jim
CAROLYN SMITH: Solidarity and union strength in the COVID era
FRANK BONGIORNO: Spies & Sparrows Book Launch
MARILYN ROLLS: A Brief History of WEL in South Australia
THE SOCIETY
ABOUT THE LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY
Labour History – Looking Ahead After 60 Years
Radical Currents, Labour Histories is published by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH). ISSN: 2653-4568
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