Labour History and its People
Papers from the twelfth National Labour History Conference held at the Australian National University Canberra 15-17 September 2011.
Edited by Melanie Nolan.
Report on the conference published in Labour History Journal No 101 of Nov 2011: Conference report 2011
Table of Contents
Welcome and message from Prime Minister
Part One: Labour Historians and their Organisations, Sources and Methods
1 Entwined Associations: Labour history and its people in Canberra
Melanie Nolan
3 Melbourne Labour History: A Collective Biography of its First Generation *
Peter Love
4 Labour History in Western Australia and the role of the ASSLH, Perth Branch*
Bobbie Oliver
5 Purposes almost infinitely varying: Archives as sources for labour biography
Maggie Shapley
6 Activists in Aggregate: Collective Biography, Labour History, and the Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement, 1788-1975*
Andrew Moore, Yasmin Rittau and John Shields
7 Raphael Samuel: A Biography in Development
Sophie Scott-Brown
Part Two: Labour Biography, subaltern cultures and identities
8 Frank Macnamara: A Convict Poet in Australia*
Mark Gregory
9 A ‘Virtual Walk’ Down Pitt Street in 1858: Uncovering the Hidden Women Workers of Colonial Sydney*
Cath Bishop
10 ‘Bastards from the Bush’: forgotten IWW Activists*
Drew Cottle and Rowan Day
11 ‘That’s not right’: Indigenous politics, Dexter Daniels and 1968*
Julie Kimber
12 ‘Shirley Andrews: social idealist for Aboriginal rights or agent of the CPA*
Sue Taffe
13 Labour women and the White Australia policy
Patricia Clarke
14 Labour Biography on the Screen: the case of Freda Brown
Rosemary Webb and Lisa Milner
15 Framing the Union: The Changing Images of Unionists on Screen
Lisa Milner
Part Three: Labour Biography: Place, Transnationalism and Crossing Borders
16 The Political Cultures of the Irish Diaspora: Some Comparative Reflections, 1800-1920
Donald M. MacRaild
17 Biography and Mobility in the Industrial Workers of the World in Australia 1911-1922: A Brief Review*
Frank Cain
18 ‘By Tomorrow I May Be Flying’: Patrick Hodgens Hickey, a case study in Transnational Labour Biography*
Peter Clayworth
19 The ‘Radical’ Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr William Temple*
Doris LeRoy
20 Harry Atkinson and the Socialist Church, 1896-1906
James Taylor
21 Labour History and Labour Biography beyond National Boundaries: Britain and Australia from the late nineteenth century to the interwar years
Neville Kirk
Part Four: Biography, Organisation and Activism
22 From Saxony to South Brisbane: the German-Australian socialist Hugo Kunze*
Andrew G. Bonnell
23 Reinstating ‘Casual Connelly’: a Labour pioneer and the struggle for political rights for public servants in New Zealand*
Peter Franks
24 Anti-Communism Undermined: The Uncomfortable Alliances of W. C. Wentworth*
Lachlan Clohesy
25 ‘We never recovered from that strike’: The Aftermath of the 1951 Waterfront Lockout and Supporting Strikes
Grace Millar
26 A Leftist in Cold War Canberra: Bruce Yuill*
Stephen Holt
27 A not unimportant role’: industry peak unions and inter-union organizing
Cathy Brigden
28 Much more than green bans: locating the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation in the history of international trade unionism*
Verity Burgmann and Meredith Burgmann
* Indicates that the paper was refereed by two blind referees