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The Past is Before Us
June 30 through July 2, 2005
University of Sydney
Welcome
Introduction
Referees
Rochdale consumer co-operatives and
Australian labour history
Nikola Balnave & Greg Patmore
'Communal life, common interests and healthy conditions':
industrial welfarism at Electrolytic Zinc, Hobart 1918-27
Ruth Barton
A long time working: Aboriginal labour on the Coolangatta
Estate, 1822-1901
Michael Bennett
Vanguards and avant-gardes: the 'Reason in Revolt' online project on
political and cultural radicalism
Simon Booth, Verity Burgmann, Stuart Macintyre, Andrew Milner & Matthew
Ryan
A world dominated by youth: child and youth labour in
Queensland, 1885-1900
Bradley Bowden
Missing women: an historical examination of female
activism in the Melbourne Trades Hall, 1880-1920
Cathy Brigden
Civilian responses to peace-time military
occupation: the 1978 Bowral call-out and its implications for the 'war on
terrorism'
Damien Cahill & Rowan Cahill
NSW Labor governments at the hands of their hostile British
governors
Frank Cain
Arbitration, business strategy and labour management at
Mort's Dock
Sandra Cockfield
The end of the line: an examination
of the 1990 Victorian tram dispute
Drew Cottle, Angela Keys & Kristie Martin
Why women took on BHP: gender bias and the Wollongong Jobs
for Women Campaign, 1980-94
Diana Covell
'Freehold property for mechanics': a brief insight into
Starr-Bowkett societies
Maxine Darnell
From the 'people's war' to the 'people's occupation':
Australian and Japanese Communists, 1945-52
Christine de Matos
Fellow-travelling in the Cold War: the Australian
peace movement
Phillip Deery & Doug Jordan
Class, language and labor tradition: towards the synthesis of discourse and experience
Nick Dyrenfurth
An Australian socialist in England: Kim Mackay, the British left, and European federalism, 1934-60
Keith Gildart
The British and rubber in Malaya, c 1890-1940
Jim Hagan & Andrew Wells
'A sort of Brigadoon'? ALP politics and the Residents' Advisory
Committee of the Glebe Estate during the time of federal government
administration, 1974-85
Tony Harris
Exporting animals, exporting jobs: 30 years of campaigning
against live export
Marjorie Jerrard
Shopping around: extended retail trading hours and the
Retail Trade Industrial Tribunal in New South Wales in the 1980s
Michael Lyons
When wages were clothes: dressing down Aboriginal
workers in the Northern Territory
Julia Martínez
Shades of the Cold War: the role of communist workers at
the Midland Railway Workshops
Bobbie Oliver
Ultimate ambition: Eileen Powell's contribution to equal pay
activism in Australia, 1929-69
Wendy Paterson
Labourism in action: Jack Baddeley, the Trade Union
Secretaries Association and the New South Wales Industrial Conciliation and
Arbitration Bill 1931
Geoff Robinson
Intersections of gender and class: female employers and
self-employed workers in interwar Queensland
Joanne Scott
Assumed but rarely documented: women's entrepreneurial
activities in late nineteenth century Australia
Glenda Strachan & Lindy Henderson
'You could go to the Trades Hall and meet organisers':
labour precincts and labour women in interwar Sydney
Rosemary Webb
'Liberty ...that's a lot of bunk!': the meaning of the 1944
Philadelphia transit strike to black Philadelphia
James Wolfinger
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