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NUMBER 83

November 2002



          
Editorial
v


COMMEMORATIVE NOTE

 
Greg Combet
Introduction
1


ARTICLES

 
Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore
Trade Union Organising and Labour History
3


Ray Markey

Explaining Union Mobilisation in the 1880s and Early 1900s

19

Rae Cooper

‘To Organise Wherever the Necessity Exists’: the Activities of the Organising Committee of the Labor Council of NSW, 1900-10
43

Bradon Ellem and John Shields
Making the ‘Gibraltar of Unionism’: Union Organising and Peak Union Agency in Broken Hill, 1886-1930
65

Barbara Webster
A ‘Cosy Relationship’ If You Had It: Queensland Labor’s Arbitration System and Union Organising Strategies in Rockhampton, 1916-57
89

Evan Roberts
Gender in Store: Salespeople’s Working Hours and Union Organisation in New Zealand and the United States, 1930-60
107


OTHER ARTICLES

 
Caroline Evans
Excellent Women and Troublesome Children: State Foster Care in Tasmania, 1896-1918
131

Jackie Hartley
Black, White … and Red? The Redfern All Blacks Rugby League Club in the Early 1960s
149


NEW RESOURCES FOR LABOUR HISTORY

 
Alan R. Bell
Sources for Scottish Labour History in the Manuscripts Division of the National Library of Scotland
173


RESEARCH NOTE

 
Duncan Waterson
How to Select a ‘Proper’ Official Historian
191


ADDRESS

 
Raelene Frances
Confessions of a Promiscuous Researcher: Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Inaugural Lecture
195


CONFERENCE REPORT

 
Donica Belisle
Celebrating Labour/Le Travail’s Fiftieth Issue: Report on the ‘Writing Canadian Labour’ Conference
205


OBITUARIES

 
Jim Hagan
Royden Harrison (03.03.1927 - 30.06.2002)
209

Bob Gould

Audrey Johnson (1925-2002)
211

Rae Frances

Bill Latter (30.05.1925 - 28.06.2002)
213


REVIEW ARTICLE

 
Marian Simms
‘Prophets with Honour’: Federation Studies Reviewed
 

Geoffrey Bolton, Edmund Barton: the One Man for the Job
Aedeen Cremin (ed.), 1901, Australian Life at Federation: an Illustrated Chronicle
Beverly Earnshaw, One Flag, One Hope, One Destiny: Sir Joseph Carruthers and Australian Federation
John Hirst, The Sentimental Nation: the Making of the Australian Commonwealth
Kevin T. Livingstone, Richard Jordan & Gay Sweeney (eds), Becoming Australians: the Movement Towards Federation in Ballarat and the Nation John Reynolds, Edmund Barton: Prime Minister of Australia 1901-1903
Michael Roe, The State of Tasmania: Identity at Federation-Time

 


BOOK REVIEWS

 
Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook & Andrew Reeves (eds), Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Artefacts of Australia; Robyn Annear, Nothing But Gold: the Diggers of 1852 (Anne Beggs Sunter) 221

David Walker, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850-1939; Anthony Burke, In Fear of Security: Australia’s Invasion Anxiety
(The Hon. Al Grassby, AM)
222

B.W. Higman, Domestic Service in Australia (Beverley Kingston)
226

Mark Hearn & Greg Patmore (eds), Working Life and Federation, 1890-1914 (Shirley Fitzgerald)
227

Judith Keene, Fighting For Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 (Jill Roe)
229

Carole Ferrier, Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary; Jill Roe & Margaret Bettison (eds), A Gregarious Culture: Topical Writings of Miles Franklin (Julie Wells)
231

Peter Love and Paul Strangio (eds), Arguing the Cold War; L.J. Louis, Menzies’ Cold War: a Reinterpretation (Rowan Cahill)
233

Bridget Griffen-Foley, Sir Frank Packer: the Young Master (David McKnight)
235

Sean Scalmer, Dissent Events: Protest, the Media and the Political Gimmick in Australia (Eric Freedman)
237

Jerold Waltman, The Politics of the Minimum Wage (Braham Dabscheck)
239

Brett Evans, The Life and Soul of the Party: a Portrait of Modern Labor (Jim Hagan)
241

Clive Faro with Garry Wotherspoon, Street Seen: a History of Oxford Street (Chris McConville)
242

Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright, False Paradise: Australian Capitalism Revisited, 1915-1955 (Richard Waterhouse)
243

Christopher Sheil (ed.), Globalisation: Australian Impacts; Boris Frankel, When the Boat Comes In: Transforming Australia in the Age of Globalisation; Angus Maddison, The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective (James R. Levy)
188


NOTICES

 
Call for Papers: Transforming Labour: Work, Workers, Struggle and Change (the Eighth National Labour History Conference, Brisbane), 3-5 October 2003 251

Call for Papers: Labor, War, and Imperialism (Twenty-Fifth Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, 16-18 October 2003)
253

Call for Papers: Struggling for Recognition: the Individual in Labour History (Conference November 2003 and special issue of Labour History, November 2004)
255


NOTICE BOARD

257

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

259

ASSLH DIRECTORY

265

INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS AND SUBSCRIBERS

266

EDITORIAL POLICY

inside back cover
Cover illustration: Nurses march and protest meeting, Sydney Town Hall, 23 March 1966 Photo by Anna Clements Source: Australian Photographic Agency Collection: Sydney people, places and events, 1953-1987, APA 22312, State Library of NSW  


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