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Notes on Contributors

Peter Akers (BAppSc) has over 20 years experience in the Information Technology industry, working for two universities (Griffith University and the University of Queensland), an aboriginal land council (Northern Land Council), an IT Consulting firm (Dialog) and a bank (Suncorp). He is currently working as a Systems Analyst in a Queensland government department. He developed the first version of AWOUND database for Michael Quinlan while working at Griffith University. Over the last eight years he has continued to work with Michael to enhance the application.
<akersp@ozemail.com.au>

Alan R. Bell is the Records Manager at the University of Dundee. Previously he has been employed by the National Library of Scotland as the Curator with responsibility for the Modern Political Manuscripts, and by Perth & Kinross Council as Assistant Archivist. He has compiled and published various source lists and articles concerning labour history and is the Vice Chair of the Scottish Labour History Society.
<A.Z.Bell@dundee.ac.uk>

Stefan Berger has recently taken up a chair of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester. Prior to April 2005, he was Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Director of the Centre for Border Studies at the University of Glamorgan in the UK. He has published widely on comparative labour history, nationalism, national identity, historical theory and the history of historiography. Among his most recent publications in the field of labour history are: Towards a Comparative History of Coalfield Societies edited with Andy Croll and Norman LaPorte (2005); Labour and Social History in Great Britain: Historiographies and Agendas, special issue of the Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts fuer soziale Bewegungen (2002); Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany (2000).
<sberger@man.ac.uk>

David Coates is the Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He is the author of a number of studies on the British Labour Party, including most recently, Blair's War (2004) with Joel Krieger, and Prolonged Labour: the Slow Birth of New Labour Britain (2005). He is currently researching the nature of a fourth way alternative to New Labour.
<coatesd@wfu.edu>

Justin Davis Smith is director of the Institute for Volunteering Research, a specialist UK research agency on volunteering and voluntary action. An historian by training, his publications include: The Attlee and Churchill Administrations and Industrial Unrest, 1945-55 (1991), and (as co-editor) An Introduction to the Voluntary Sector (1994). He is a founding member and honorary secretary of the Voluntary Action History Society, a UK charity dedicated to the study of the history of charity and philanthropy.
<Justin.Davis-Smith@volunteeringengland.org>

Phillip Deery is a Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at Victoria University. His research on the early Cold War has recently been published in Intelligence and National Security, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Journal of Cold War Studies, The Round Table and Social Alternatives. His current comparative research is focused on the impact of the Cold War on science and scientists in Australia, Great Britain and the United States.
<phillip.deery@vu.edu.a>

Miles Fairburn, FRSNZ, has been Professor of History at the University of Canterbury since 1998. His publications include: The Ideal Society and its Enemies (1989), Nearly Out of Heart and Hope (1995), and Social History: Problems, Strategies and Methods (1999).
<miles.fairburn@canterbury.ac.nz>

Margaret Gardner has recently been appointed Vice Chancellor of RMIT in Melbourne. Prior to that she was Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Queensland. Her major research interests include trade union strategy and history. Together with Michael Quinlan, she has published a series of articles, on Australian unions and industrial relations, arising from a joint ARGS funded research project.

Victoria Haskins is a lecturer in Australian history at Flinders University, and a former curator of Australian Social History at the National Museum of Australia. She has published a number of articles on colonialism, gender and race relations history in Australia, and her research interests include relationships between Indigenous domestic workers and their employers, frontier histories and popular cultural memory, and intermarriage between Aboriginal men and white women. She has two books forthcoming in 2005, Uncommon Ground: White Women and Aboriginal History, co-edited with Fiona Paisley and Anna Cole, and One Bright Spot.
<Victoria.Haskins@flinders.edu.au>

Stephen Haslett is Professor and Director of the Statistics and Consulting Centre at Massey University. He has held a National Science Foundation / American Statistical Association Senior Fellowship and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Chartered Statistician (UK). He has co-authored papers across a wide range of disciplines in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Law, and Business, including papers in History and Political Science.
<s.j.haslett@massey.ac.nz>

Bob James began researching fraternal associations 20 years ago. He is currently Co-ordinator of the recently-opened Centre for Fraternal Studies in Newcastle (www.fraternalsecrets.org), Convenor of the Heritage and Memorabilia Committee of the Friendly Societies Association of NSW, and a Director of the Grand United Friendly Society.
<rnjames@kooee.com.au>

Gregory S. Kealey is Vice President Research and Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick. A founding editor of Labour/Le Travail, he served as editor from 1976-97 and still edits the Canadian Social History Series for the University of Toronto Press. His most recent work has concerned state repression of labour and the left in twentieth-century Canada.
<gkealey@unb.ca>

Neville Kirk is Professor of Labour and Social History in the Department of History and Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University. His recent publications include the 2-volume Labour and Society in Britain and the USA 1780-1939 (1994), and Comrades and Cousins: Globalization, Workers and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA and Australia from the 1880s to 1914 (2003).
<n.kirk@mmu.ac.uk>

Janette Martin is one of two archivists at the Labour History Archive and Study Centre at the People's History Museum, Manchester, UK. She is currently seconded to a joint project between Oxford and Manchester universities examining the challenges of preserving the papers of contemporary politicians in digital form (Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media project, PARADIGM, see www.paradigm.ac.uk). Janette is the secretary of both the Society for the Study of Labour History Archive and Resources Sub Committee UK and the Political Parties and Parliamentary Archives Group UK. She is also a member of the Co-ordinating Committee of the International Association of Labour History Institutions.
<jmartin@fs1.li.man.ac.uk>

Sigrid McCausland is currently on leave from her job as University Archivist at the Australian National University. From late 1998 to early 2005 she was responsible for the Noel Butlin Archives Centre's collections of business and labour records. She is proud to have been part of the successful campaign to save the Centre some years ago. Her research interests include the anti-nuclear movement in Australia and the archives of the labour movement.
<sigridmcc@optusnet.com.au>

Arthur McIvor is a Reader in History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He is a specialist in labour and industrial relations history, with a particular interest in the social history of work. He is the author of A History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950 (2001), Organised Capital (1996), and (with R. Johnston) Lethal Work (2000). He is currently working (with R. Johnston) on a history of miners' lung in the UK for Ashgate Press, 2006.
<a.mcivor@strath.ac.uk>

John Murphy has recently taken up an appointment as Associate Professor in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne; previously he was Associate Professor at RMIT University, where he was also Director of the Centre for Applied Social Research. His most recent book is Imagining the Fifties (2000).
<john.murphy1@unimelb.edu.au>

Melanie Nolan is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington. She is author of Breadwinning? Women and the New Zealand State (2000) and she is currently writing a history on gender and the rise of professional society in Australasia. Canterbury University Press is publishing both a monograph, Kin: the Collective Biography of a New Zealand Working-Class Family, and a co-edited collection, Revolution: the 1913 New Zealand Great Strike, later this year.
<Melanie.Nolan@vuw.ac.nz>

Melanie Oppenheimer is a Senior Lecturer and teaches twentieth century Australian history at the University of Western Sydney. She has published numerous articles on aspects of unpaid labour, volunteerism and war. Her book, All Work, No Pay: Australian Civilian Volunteers in War (2002) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards in 2003.
<m.oppenheimer@uws.edu.au>

Greg Patmore is editor of Labour History, and director of the Business and Labour History Group, School of Business, University of Sydney. Current research interests include Rochdale co-operatives and employee democracy.
<g.patmore@econ.usyd.edu.au>

Michael Quinlan is a Professor in the School of Organisation and Management at the University of New South Wales. His major research interests are occupational health and safety, and industrial relations history. The study of retail workers forms part of a larger project on the history Australian trade unions that was funded by the Australian Research Grants Scheme.
<m.quinlan@unsw.edu.au>

Neil Redfern is the author of the recently published Class or Nation: Communists, Imperialism and Two World Wars. He lectures in history at Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University.
<neilredfern99@aol.com>

Dan Weinbren has chaired the international Friendly Societies Research Group, which is based at the Open University in the UK, since 1999. His publications include books and articles on the history of the British armaments industry, the development of the Labour Party in the UK, and on many aspects of British friendly societies. He can be contacted via Social Sciences, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes UK.
<d.weinbren@open.ac.uk>

Christopher Wright is an Associate Professor in the School of Organisation and Management at the University of New South Wales. He has published extensively on the history of Australian management, including the book The Management of Labour: a History of Australian Employers (1995). His other research interests include technological change and workplace restructuring, the role and impact of management consulting, and the global diffusion of management knowledge.
<c.wright@unsw.edu.au>

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