Welcome
Australian
Society for the Study of Labour History
The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History was
founded in 1961 to encourage study, teaching and research in
labour history, with its main activity being the publication
of the journal, Labour History. The interdisciplinary
nature of labour history, with its acceptance of less traditional
sources including folklore and oral testimony, make it a fascinating
field, alive to past and present social justice issues.
The Society draws its membership from labour movement activists
and academia, and maintains close links with the international
community of labour historians.
Branches of the Society are active in the ACT, Adelaide, Brisbane,
Illawarra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The branches hold talks
and conferences, publish regular newsletters and journals, and
they take turns in organising the biennial national Labour
History conference. The journal receives support from the
School of Business in the Faculty of Economics and Business
at The University of Sydney. Two issues of Labour History
are published per annum (May and November). Labour History
participates in the online journal website of the History Co-operative
managed by the University of Illinois Press.
A website serving the Society and its seven regional Branches
is maintained at www.asslh.com.
On this site, we have made available the digitised contents
pages of the journal (no.1 to the present issue), and the abstracts
since no. 74 (May 1998). They can be browsed or searched, thus
providing a virtual index of labour history writing since 1962.
A more ambitious project now under way is the digitising of
back issues of the Sydney branch journal, Hummer, the
first issue of which appeared in 1988. Using the site's secure
server, visitors to the site can subscribe to Labour History
or purchase back issues of the journal as well as other society
publications.
The Society administers two biennial awards: the Labour
History Prize of $400 funded jointly by the Society and
Unions NSW for the best article appearing in the journal in
the preceding two years; and the Gollan Prize for Labour
History (valued up to $600) which fosters the work of new
scholars in the field by enabling them to attend the National
Labour History conferences.
Business
and Labour History Group
The main objective of the Business and Labour History Group
is to promote historical research and teaching within the School
of Business and the Faculty of Economics and Business. The group
organises seminars and conferences on historical themes in the
areas of accounting history, business history, economic history
and labour history. It also runs research projects on a variety
of themes. Since 1986 it has been the home of the journal Labour
History. The group is a multi-disciplinary group drawing participants
from both schools in the Faculty of Economics and Business.
The group receives funding from the School of Business and the
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
Activities during 2005 include the 9th National Labour History
Conference (30 June to 2 July) and a one day seminar on the
state systems of industrial relations (26 August). Research
projects include the Biographical Register of the Australian
Labour Movement and a history of Citigroup in Australia.
For further details of the Group's activities please contact
either:Greg Patmore: g.patmore@econ.usyd.edu.au
or John Shields: j.shields@econ.usyd.edu.au.http://blhg.econ.usyd.edu.au/
