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NUMBER 90

May 2006


Editorial vi
President's Column vii

Articles

Ruth Ford
'Prove first you're a male': A Farmhand's Claim for Wages in 1929 Australia 1

Leighton James and Ray Markey
Class and Labour: The British Labour Party and the Australian Labor Party Compared 23

Sandra Cockfield
Arbitration and the Workplace: A Case Study of Metters' Stovemakers, 1902–22 23

Shawn Sherlock
'Good-bye the State's Progress': State Enterprise and Labor's Plan for a North Queensland Steel Industry, 1915–20 61

Rob Bollard
'The Active Chorus': The Great Strike of 1917 in Victoria 77

Charles Fahey and John Lack
Working at Sunshine: A Case Study of the Recruitment and Retention of Labour in a Melbourne Manufacturing Enterprise, 1946–63 95

Ashley Lavelle
Labor and Vietnam: A Reappraisal 119

Les Dalton
The Fox Inquiry: Public Policy Making in Open Forum 137

Rory O'Malley
The Eclipse of Mateship: The Wide Comb Dispute 1979–85 155

Nick Dyrenfurth
Rethinking Labor Tradition: Synthesising Discourse and Experience 177

Historical Perspectives on Current Issues

L.W. Maher
'Modernising' the Crime of Sedition? 201

Bradon Ellem
Beyond Industrial Relations: WorkChoices and the Reshaping of Labour, Class and the Commonwealth 211

New Resources for Labour History

Bob James
'Mateship and Secret Societies in Australia' at the Centre for Fraternal Studies 221

Conference Reports

Nick Dyrenfurth
Mateship: Trust and Exclusion in Australian History 223

Cathy Bridgen
Labouring Feminism and Working Class History in North America and Beyond 225

Heritage Reports

Bobbie Oliver
The National Railway Heritage Conference 227

Philippa Rogers
The Australian Railway Monument and Rail Journeys Musuem 229

Book Reviews

Shane White and Graham White, The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech (Chris Dixon) 231

Stuart Macintyre (ed.), The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History (Bruce Scates) 232

Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is History Fiction? (Julie McIntyre) 234

Kate Grenville, The Secret River (Amanda Crawford) 236

Edward Duyker, Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834) (Bob Brown) 238

Josiah Bartlett Lambert, `If the Workers Took a Notion': The Right to Strike and American Political Development (Braham Dabscheck) 239

Michael Zweig, The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (Gregory Wood) 240

Elisabeth Wynhausen, Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market (John Della Bosca) 242

Douglas Hay and Paul Craven (eds), Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562–1955 (Neville Kirk) 244

Mark Reutter, Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might (Greg Patmore) 245

Colin Davis, Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61 (David Palmer) 246

John Manning Ward, The State and the People: Australian Federation and Nation-Making 1870–1901 (Alan Atkinson) 249

Frank Cain, Jack Lang and the Great Depression (Sue Tracey) 251

Ray Gietzelt, Worth Fighting For: The Memoirs of Ray Gietzelt (Harry Knowles) 253

Book Notes

Felicity Bartak with Phillip Deery, A Unique Endeavour: A History of the Western Region Health Centre, 1964–2004 (Erik Eklund) 255

Shane Homan, The Mayor's a Square: Live Music and Law and Order in Sydney (Erik Eklund) 255

Notice Board 256

Call for Papers
Working Life, Enterprise and Arbitration 260

Trans-Tasman Labour History: Comparative or Transnational? 261

ASSLH Directory 263

Information for Contributors and Subscribers 264

Editorial Policy inside back cover

Cover illustration
'The romantic man-woman, who in court gave the name "William Smith"', Truth (Sydney), 1 September 1929, p. 20. (State Library of New South Wales)


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