Table of Contents
Welcome and Message from Prime Minister vii
Note on Refereeing Process viii
Part One: Labour Historians and their Organisations, Sources and Methods
1 Entwined Associations: Labour history and its people in Canberra
Melanie Nolan 1
2 ‘Understand the Past, Act on the Present, Shape the Future’ Transcript of Eric Fry’s Account of the History of the ASSLH
Eric Fry 16
3 Melbourne Labour History: A Collective Biography of its First
Generation *
Peter Love 36
4 Labour History in Western Australia and the role of the
ASSLH, Perth Branch*
Bobbie Oliver 48
5 Purposes almost infinitely varying: Archives as sources for labour biography
Maggie Shapley 61
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 68
7 Raphael Samuel: A Biography in Development
Sophie Scott-Brown 88
Part Two: Labour Biography, subaltern cultures and identities
8 Frank Macnamara: A Convict Poet in Australia*
Mark Gregory 102
9 A ‘Virtual Walk’ Down Pitt Street in 1858: Uncovering the
Hidden Women Workers of Colonial Sydney*
Cath Bishop 116
10 ‘Bastards from the Bush’: forgotten IWW Activists*
Drew Cottle and Rowan Day 144
11 ‘That’s not right’: Indigenous politics, Dexter Daniels and 1968
Julie Kimber 153
12 ‘Shirley Andrews: social idealist for Aboriginal rights or agent of the CPA*
Sue Taffe 165
13 Labour women and the White Australia policy
Patricia Clarke 180
14 Labour Biography on the Screen: the case of Freda Brown
Rosemary Webb and Lisa Milner 191
| 15 Framing the Union: The Changing Images of Unionists on | |
| Screen | |
| Lisa Milner | 204 |
| 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 214
17 Biography and Mobility in the Industrial Workers of the
World in Australia 1911-1922: A Brief Review*
Frank Cain 231
18 ‘By Tomorrow I May Be Flying’: Patrick Hodgens Hickey, a case study in Transnational Labour Biography*
Peter Clayworth 244
19 The ‘Radical’ Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr William Temple*
Doris LeRoy 258
20 Harry Atkinson and the Socialist Church, 1896-1906
James Taylor 271
21 Labour History and Labour Biography beyond National Boundaries: Britain and Australia from the late nineteenth century to the interwar years
Neville Kirk 282
Part Four: Biography, Organisation and Activism
22 From Saxony to South Brisbane: the German-Australian socialist Hugo Kunze*
Andrew G. Bonnell 299
23 Reinstating ‘Casual Connelly’: a Labour pioneer and the struggle for political rights for public servants in New Zealand
Peter Franks 310
24 Anti-Communism Undermined: The Uncomfortable Alliances of W. C. Wentworth*
Lachlan Clohesy 322
25 ‘We never recovered from that strike’: The Aftermath of the
1951 Waterfront Lockout and Supporting Strikes
Grace Millar 337
26 A Leftist in Cold War Canberra: Bruce Yuill
Stephen Holt 346
27 A not unimportant role’: industry peak unions and inter-union organizing
Cathy Brigden 356
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 373
Notes about Contributors 384
* Indicates that the paper was refereed by two blind referees