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NOTICE BOARD
The ASSLH website: The website for the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History <www.asslh.org.au> has undergone major renovations. While it may look similar to the previous site, it should be easier to navigate. It also has more functionality; for example, articles from back issues of the Sydney Branch publication, The Hummer, should now come up readily in a Google search. The increased flexibility of the website means that it can be readily altered and added to. Soon we should have a notice board on which the federal society and its branches can advertise news and events. We are also hoping that ASSLH's branches will enjoy the opportunity to update and improve their webpages. The Sydney Branch has already begun to do so. It now has its own bulletin board and a page called 'Icons of the Labour Movement' which displays photos of places and objects associated with the labour movement. Please explore the website and contact the Labour History office <m.walters@econ.usyd.edu.au> with your comments.
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New Labor History website: The Chifley Research Centre has launched a new 'Labor History' website <www.laborhistory.org.au/home.html> which seeks to educate the Australian people in the history and stories of the Australia Labor Party. Aiming to be the largest single resource on the ALP, this project helps users – whether they are students, teachers or members of the public – gain an understanding of the party as a whole. On the website, you can trace the history of the ALP from its inception in the 1890s to the Hawke period of the 1990s. You can also add to the collection by sharing your own experiences. Such stories will stand as testaments to those who have contributed to the democratic development of Australia.
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University of Sydney's new history archive: The University's Faculty of Economics and Business has opened a new archive in Burren Street, Newtown. It contains material in the areas of Accounting History, Business History, Economic History, and Labour History. One of the archive's unique features is the inclusion of Professor R.J. Chambers' personal library, reading materials and published works. Comprising some 5,000 items, this forms part of the renowned R.J. Chambers Archive. The Burren Street archive also includes a complete set of the Common Cause (the newspaper of the Miners Federation), the NSW Industrial Gazette, and records pertaining to the ACI Glass Factory at Alexandria. For inquiries and access to the archive, contact Merilyn Bryce <M.Bryce@econ.usyd.edu.au>.
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AAHANZBS Conference: The Academic Association of Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools will have its inaugural conference on 14–15 December 2009 at the Women's College, University of Sydney. The conference is being organised by the University's Business and Labour History Group and will provide an opportunity for researchers to present papers (both refereed and non-refereed) across a wide range of topics. The focus will be on three main themes: (a) The role of historical research in developing theoretical perspectives in business and management; (b) How historical research aids our understanding of contemporary issues in business and management; (c) Teaching history in business and management schools. Some of the highlights of the conference include a keynote address by Sanford Jacoby (UCLA) and a workshop for postgraduate research students. For more information, visit <http://blhg.econ.usyd.edu.au/>. All enquiries regarding the conference should be addressed to its organiser, Greg Patmore <g.patmore@econ.usyd.edu.au>.
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National Centre of Biography Postdoctoral Fellow. A three-year postdoctoral position has been advertised within the History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (closing date 15 November 2009). The National Centre of Biography (NCB) was established in June 2008 to serve as a focus for the study of life writing in Australia, supporting innovative research and writing to the highest standards in the field. It is a community of scholars and postgraduate students committed to generating ideas, to challenging stereotypes and accepted wisdom, to pushing the boundaries of intellectual thought and to contributing to debates on biography. The Centre also has responsibility for publishing the printed volumes of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) and for developing ADB Online. The ADB is a long established national, co-operative enterprise, the largest in the arts and social sciences in Australia. The ADB Online is a world leader in national biography and now a basic research tool in history for the humanities and social sciences. You will pursue an independent research program in the NCB and will work half time editing entries for the ADB. We encourage applications from women and indigenous scholars. Enquiries: Professor Melanie Nolan Tel: 6125 2131 E-mail: Melanie.Nolan@anu.edu.au
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The Eric Fry Labour History Research Grant: The Canberra Region Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) and the National Institute for Social Sciences and Law (NISSL) at the Australian National University (ANU) invite honours and postgraduate students to apply for a $1,000 grant to do research at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC), based at the ANU in Canberra. The NBAC is the largest non-government archives in Australia, and holds an unrivalled collection of trade union and business records, along with the personal papers of many left wing and labour movement activists. The aim of the grant is to assist a promising honours or postgraduate student with an interest in labour history and/or the labour movement generally, to overcome the financial obstacles to doing research in Canberra. The grant honours the contribution of the late Dr Eric Fry to labour history as Senior Lecturer in History at the ANU from 1959 and as Reader from 1967 to1986. Together with the late Prof Robin Gollan, Dr Fry founded ASSLH in 1961 and was its first Secretary and then President from 1984 to1986. Applications for the 2010 grant will close on 31 January 2010. Further details at: <http://asslh.org.au/branches/canberra/> Enquiries: <petere@vtown.com.au>
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Labour History in the New Century– the Proceedings of the 2009 National Labour History Conference, edited by Bobbie Oliver, is available from Black Swan Press, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845. <http://research.humanities.curtin.edu.au/blackswan/>
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AIRAANZ Conference: The Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australian and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) will hold its 24th conference on 3–5 February 2010 in Sydney, Australia. The conference is entitled 'Work in Progress: Crises, Choices and Continuity' and will include a diverse range of papers exploring issues in contemporary industrial relations as well as historical trends and patterns. Since 2010 is the centenary of the first elected Australian Labor Party governments, the conference will provide an appropriate opportunity to discuss the crises that have periodically affected the industrial and political wings of the labour movement in Australia and New Zealand. Those interested in labour history should note that Nikola Balnave <n.balnave@uws.edu.au> and Lucy Taksa <lucy.taksa@efs.mq.edu.au> are organising a special stream: 'Lessons from the past: How historical research aids our understanding of contemporary issues in industrial relations'. For more information, visit <www.alloccasionsgroup.com/AIRAANZ2010>.
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The Italian and Australian Cooperative Sectors – The Past, Present and Future, 15, 16 and 17 February 2010, Sydney University Village. The University of Sydney's Business and Labour History Group has been instrumental in securing Italian academics from the University of Trento and the European Research Institute for Cooperatives and Social Enterprises to engage in a three-year research project linking Australia and Italy. This will compare the cooperative movements in both countries – and will research key factors leading to a successful cooperative sector and also the factors that inhibit a cooperative sector. The research programme will start with a three-day symposium which will feature the latest theoretical and empirical work on cooperatives from Professor Carlo Borzaga and Dr Ermanno Tortia from the University of Trento. The key theme of the Symposium is to compare the research in Italy and Australia in four cooperative sectors – the retail sector, credit union sector, worker and indigenous cooperative areas – and define areas for the future research of the project. Professor Greg Patmore, Dr Leanne Cutcher, Dr Nikola Balnave and Anthony Jensen will present papers. The Symposium will be part of full week of activities in Sydney. Following the Symposium, the Co-operative Federation of NSW will hold a two-day Cooperative Opportunities Conference at the same venue and will devote some time to developing these themes from a practical perspective. The aim of the week is to start a discussion and research project on how the cooperative sector can achieve its potential in Australia in a world defined by a new set of economic, social and environmental parameters. A conference registration form and a programme outline will be posted at: <http://blhg.econ.usyd.edu.au/>. For further details please contact Greg Patmore on <g.patmore@econ.usyd.edu.au>.
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The 'Australian Settlement' and the Fisher Government – Call for Papers: This one-day conference to be held 30 April 2010 at the University of Sydney marks the 100th anniversary of the Australian Labor Party becoming the first social democratic party to hold office in its own right anywhere in the world. Under the leadership of Andrew Fisher, the Labor Government embarked on a post-Federation nation-building project that has come to be called the 'Australian Settlement'. We call for papers which give a more critical and wider understanding of the Settlement, addressing issues such as: the role of organised labour; the relationship between liberalism and labour movement ideology; the terms of citizenship offered by a gendered and racially exclusionist settlement; the role of defence policy; the nature of Australian liberal governance; and the transnational context of nation building. The conference is convened by Mark Hearn, Macquarie University, Nick Dyrenfurth and Harry Knowles, both of University of Sydney. The conference is supported by the Business and Labour History Group, Work and Organisational Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted by 12 February 2010 to <N.dyrenfurth@econ.usyd.edu.au>
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