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Categories Labour history research
Labour history research articles
A number of articles and essays on Australian labour history and politics, mostly written by members of Socialist Alternative.
16
May
2007
by
Sandra Bloodworth -
Published in
Labour Hist
In 1957, a small number of people, a majority of them white, organised a meeting to support Aboriginal rights, as the first public activity of their recently formed organisation, the Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (AAF). They booked the Sydney Town Hall - an enormous statement of optimism! And they almost filled it.
15
May
2007
by
Tom Bramble -
Published in
Labour Hist
For an expanded version of this article see: T. Bramble, "Free trade, fair trade and job loss", in D. Kelly (ed): Research on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations 2001, AIRAANZ Conference Proceedings, Volume 1.
02
May
2007
by
Tom O'Lincoln -
Published in
Labour Hist
How did women get the vote so early in Australia? Between 1860 and 1890, the dynamic of Australia's capitalist development reshaped gender relations, in some ways limiting women's rights, but in other ways creating important new opportunities.
02
May
2007
by
Tom Bramble -
Published in
Labour Hist
Published as: Bramble, T.J., ‘Social Democracy and the "Failure" of the Accord', in S. Bertone (ed.): Australia in Accord: An Assessment of Australia's Incomes Policy Experiment during the Hawke-Keating Years, Victoria University Press, Melbourne.
02
May
2007
by
Liz Ross -
Published in
Labour Hist
This article is a chapter in the book Rebel Women. This chapter is based on my own direct involvement with the 1986 nurses' strike. An earlier version appeared as ‘Sisters are Doing It for Themselves ... and Us', Hecate, vol XIII (1) 1987, later reprinted as a pamphlet, Dedication Doesn't Pay the Rent!, Socialist Action, 1987 - Liz Ross.
13
Apr
2007
by
Tom Bramble -
Published in
Labour Hist
First Published by Brisbane Defend Our Unions Committee.
13
Apr
2007
by
Sandra Bloodworth -
Published in
Labour Hist
This is the inspiring story of the Kortex strike of December 1981 in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.
02
Apr
2007
by
Mick Armstrong -
Published in
Labour Hist
Violent class conflict is invariably portrayed as alien to the "Australian way of life". It isn't.
02
Apr
2007
by
Tom O'Lincoln -
Published in
Labour Hist
This article is republished with permission from Tom O'Lincoln's Marxist Interventions site. It first appeared as a pamphlet, published by Socialist Action [Melbourne] in 1986.
02
Feb
2005
by
Rick Kuhn -
Published in
Labour Hist
This article is republished with permission from Tom O'Lincoln's Marxist Interventions site.
