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Notes on Contributors
Donica Belisle is a PhD candidate in
Canadian Studies at Trent University, Canada. Her research interests
include the histories of retail workers, consumers, and market societies.
Currently, she is writing a dissertation titled Empire of Consumption:
Eaton’s and the History of Canadian Consumer Society, 1869-1956.<dbelisle@trentu.ca>
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Alan R. Bell, MA (Hons) in Modern History, is currently a
Manuscripts Curator at the National Library of Scotland with particular
responsibility for the Modern Political collections. He is a member
of the Committee of the Scottish Labour History Society, the Council
of the Scottish Records Association and the representative of the
Manuscripts Division of the National Library of Scotland to the
Political Parties & Parliamentary Archives Group, United Kingdom,
and the International Association of Labour History Institutions.<ms715ab@nls.uk>
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Greg Combet became Secretary of the Australian Council
of Trade Unions (ACTU) in February 2000 having worked in various
capacities in the organisation since 1993. He has tertiary qualifications
in engineering, economics, and labour relations and the law. He
worked as a miner and in minerals exploration before being employed
by various bodies including the NSW Tenants’ Union, the Lidcombe
Workers’ Health Centre and the Waterside Workers’ Federation.
He has overseen the ACTU’s Living Wage case for low paid workers
since 1997.
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Rae Cooper teaches industrial relations in Work and Organisational
Studies at the University of Sydney. Union organising is her primary
research interest. Rae recently completed her PhD which examined
the growth strategies of white-collar Australian unions during the
1990s. <r.cooper@econ.usyd.edu.au>
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Bradon Ellem teaches industrial relations in Work and
Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. He is currently
writing about union renewal in the Pilbara, editing a book on peak
unions with Ray Markey and John Shields, and co-editing a special
issue of Labour & Industry which examines the dialogue
between industrial relations and human geography. His major historical
research at present is his work with John Shields on a history of
the social relations of work in Broken Hill. <b.ellem@econ.usyd.edu.au>
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Caroline Evans obtained her PhD for ‘Protecting
the Innocent: Tasmania’s Neglected Children, Their Parents
and State Care, 1890-1918' in December 1999. She currently works
as an academic and public historian in Hobart. <Caroline.Evans@utas.edu.au>
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Raelene Frances teaches in the School
of History of the University of New South Wales. She has published
several books and numerous articles on the history of work, women’s
history, Aboriginal/European contact history, religious and community
history and has also co-edited several collections of essays on
Australian and New Zealand history. Rae is currently writing a history
of sex work in Australia. <r.frances@unsw.edu.au>
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Bob Gould: a life long activist, autodidact and well-known
bookseller of the left in Sydney. Convenor of Vietnam Action Campaign,
1965-72
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Jim Hagan is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of
Arts at the University of Wollongong and has published widely in
labour history. Current research interests include the history of
‘free’ and ‘unfree’ labour in southern and southeast
Asia, the regional political history of New South Wales, and the
establishing of an electronic regional archive network.
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Jackie Hartley is a BA(Hons)/LLB student at the University
of New South Wales. She was awarded the University Medal in History
(2001) and has won several other prizes for her work in History
and Law. She is currently Editor of the University of New South
Wales Law Journal. Research interests include the history
of Indigenous Australians, the Communist Party in Australia (particularly
its involvement in the Indigenous rights movements) and Australian
labour history generally.<hartley_jackie@hotmail.com>
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Ray Markey is Associate Professor in Industrial Relations
at the University of Wollongong. Recent books are Labour and
Community (2001), Regional Employment Relations at Work
(jointly authored, 2001), and Models of Employee Participation
in a Changing Global Environment (jointly authored, 2001).
He also wrote The Making of the Labor Party in NSW, 1880-1900
(1988), and the Life and Times of the Labor Council of
NSW 1871-1991 (1994). He is currently chairman of the International
Industrial Relations Association Study Group on Workers’
Participation. <r_markey@uow.edu.au>
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Greg Patmore is a chair of Discipline in Work and Organisational
Studies, University of Sydney and is the Editor of Labour History.
He is currently researching labour representation in the steel industry
in Australia, USA and Canada 1900-30. <g.patmore@econ.usyd.edu.au>
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Evan Roberts is a doctoral student in history
at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and works
at the Minnesota Population Center. He did a BA (Hons) in history
at Victoria University of Wellington before moving to the United
States. His interests are twentieth century American economic
and labour history. His dissertation research examines the growth
in the participation of married women in the labour force in America
during the twentieth century. <eroberts@hist.umn.edu>
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John Shields is a senior lecturer in human resource management
in the Work and Organisational Studies Discipline at the University
of Sydney. John has a longstanding interest in industrial relations
and labour history and, with colleague Bradon Ellem, is co-authoring
a book-length study of the history of social relations of work in
the mining locality of Broken Hill. He is also co-editor of the
Hummer, the bulletin of the Sydney Branch of the Australian
Society for the Study of Labour History. <j.shields@econ.usyd.edu.au>
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Marian Simms is Head of Political Studies Department at the
University of Otago, New Zealand. Her interests include public policy,
political history and election studies. Her most recent book is
the edited collection of essays, 1901: The Forgotten Election
(2001), with a grant from the History & Education Fund of
the National Council for the Centenary of Federation. <Marian.Simms@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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Duncan Waterson is a former professor of modern history at
Macquarie University in Sydney and the author of numerous books
on Australian political history.
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Barbara Webster is an Associate Lecturer and Post-doctoral Research
Fellow at Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, where she
teaches Australian history and foreign relations. Her recent doctoral
thesis was a history of the trade union movement in Rockhampton
to the 1950s. At present, she is also investigating early waterway
engineering on the Fitzroy River and Rockhampton floods for the
Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway
Management. <b.webster@cqu.edu.au>
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