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NUMBER 97

November 2009


EDITORIAL v

ANTI-UNION EMPLOYER STRATEGY AND AUSTRALIAN LABOUR HISTORY

Edited by Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore

Private Detectives, Blacklists and Company Unions: Anti-Union Employer Strategy and Australian Labour History
Rae Cooper and Greg Patmore 1

Silicosis, Mechanisation and the Demise of Sydney's Rockchoppers' Union, 1908–18
Peter Sheldon 13

Anti-Union or Pro-Property? Worker Surveillance and Gold Theft in Western Australian Gold Mines, 1899–1920
Naomi Segal 37

Employee Participation and Labour Representation: ICI Works Councils in Australia, 1942–75
Raymond Markey and Greg Patmore 53

CRA/Rio Tinto in the 1990s: A Decade of Deunionisation
Bruce Hearn Mackinnon 75

How Many of These Are Anti-Union Practices? A US Perspective
George Strauss 97

OTHER ARTICLES

'Harmony ... between the Employer and Employed': Employer Support for Union Formation in Brisbane, 1857–90
Bradley Bowden 105

Fremantle in Slow Motion: Winning Back the Melbourne Waterfront, 1919
Robert Bollard 123

The Australian Left's Support for the Creation of the State of Israel, 1947–48
Philip Mendes 137

The Cairns Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Advancement League and the Community of the Left
Sue Taffe 149

CONFERENCE REPORTS

The ACTU Congress of 2009
Ed Davis 169

Labour History in the New Century: 11th National Labour History Conference
Peter Franks 185

ADDRESS

American Labour Law as a Model for Australia? Or, Can You Get Here From There?
David Brody 189

OBITUARY

John Peter Maynes, 1923–2009
Keith Harvey 199

BOOK REVIEWS

John Docker, The Origins of Violence (Rebecca Cameron) 203

Ann Curthoys, Ann Genovese & Alexander Reilly, Rights and Redemption: History, Law and Indigenous People (Libby Connors) 205

Bain Attwood, Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History (Tim Rowse) 206

Arnold J. Meagher, The Coolie Trade: The Traffic in Chinese Laborers to Latin America 1847–1874 (Kathleen López) 208

Diane Kirkby, Voices from the Ships: Australia's Seafarers and Their Union (Tom Sheridan) 209

Bradley Bowden, Against All Odds: The History of the United Firefighters Union in Queensland, 1917–2008 (Bradon Ellem) 211

Humphrey McQueen, Framework of Flesh: Builders' Labourers Battle for Health & Safety (Michael Quinlan) 213

Gary Daniels & John McIlroy (eds), Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World (Peter Fairbrother) 215

Anthony Forsyth & Andrew Stewart (eds), Fair Work: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy (Braham Dabscheck) 216

Frank Stilwell & Kirrily Jordan, Who Gets What? Analysing Economic Inequality in Australia (Helen Masterman-Smith) 218

Helen Masterman-Smith & Barbara Pocock, Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia (Therese Jefferson) 221

Colin Holden & Richard Trembath, Divine Discontent: The Brotherhood of St Laurence: A History (Andrew R. St. John) 222

Mike Sanders, The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History (Paul A. Pickering) 224

Martin Crotty & David Andrew Roberts (eds), Turning Points in Australian History;
Martin Crotty & David Andrew Roberts (eds), The Great Mistakes of Australian History (Robert Bollard)
225

Philippa Mein Smith, Peter Hempenstall & Shaun Goldfinch, Remaking the Tasman World (James Bennett) 227

Madeline Grey, Challenging Women: Towards Equality in the Parliament of Victoria;
Marian Sawer, Making Women Count: A History of the Women's Electoral Lobby in Australia (Cathy Jenkins)
230

Tony Harris, Basket Weavers and True Believers: Making and Unmaking the Labor Left in Leichhardt Municipality, 1970–1991 (Geoffrey Robinson) 232

Rodney Smith, Against the Machines: Minor Parties and Independents in New South Wales, 1910–2006 (Sylvia Hale) 233

Margot O'Neill, Blind Conscience (Eileen Pittaway) 235

Brigid Rooney, Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life (David Wolstencroft) 236

Robert Service, Comrades: Communism: A World History (Neville Kirk) 238

Frank Cain, Terrorism & Intelligence in Australia: A History of ASIO & National Surveillance (Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones) 240

Daniel Rosenberg, Underground Communists in the McCarthy Period: A Family Memoir (Peter Meyer Filardo) 241

Bobbie Oliver, Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism (Lenore Coltheart) 243

Peter Bastian, Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man;
Edward W. Humphreys, Andrew Fisher: The Forgotten Man (Nick Dyrenfurth)
244

David S. Bird, J.A. Lyons: The Tame Tasmanian: Appeasement and Rearmament in Australia 1932–39 (Christopher Waters) 247

Kim E. Beazley, Father of the House: The Memoirs of Kim E. Beazley (Bobbie Oliver) 248

Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, The Biography, Volume 1 (Jim Davidson) 250

Quentin Beresford, The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke (Jacqueline Dickenson) 251

BOOK NOTES

Marcel van der Linden, Workers of the World: Essays Towards a Global Labor History (Marilyn Lake) 253

Bernadette Brennan (ed.), Just Words? Australian Authors Writing for Justice (Ian Syson) 253

LABOUR HISTORY IN SONG

Eveleigh Railway Workshops
John Warner 255

NOTICE BOARD 257

ASSLH DIRECTORY 263

INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS AND SUBSCRIBERS 264

EDITORIAL POLICY inside back cover


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