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Tom Bramble

Tom Bramble has been a socialist activist since the late 1970s. He is a senior lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Queensland. He has published four books and 50 journal articles and book chapters on political economy and the labour movement in Australia and overseas. Tom’s most recent book is Labor’s Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2011 (with Rick Kuhn).


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