Category Archives: 2001 Conference

Unions and anti-Chinese agitation on the Victorian goldfields

Unions and anti-Chinese agitation on the Victorian goldfields
The Clunes riot of 1873

by Jerome Small

This paper (access via the above link) was presented at the seventh national Labour History Conference held in Canberra in April 2001. It never appeared in the published proceedings. At a time of heightened anti-Chinese racism in Australia, its publication now in 2020 is a timely reminder of how little has changed. The paper was condensed from the author’s 1997 Honours thesis which can be found in full at the following website: https://sa.org.au/interventions/interventions.htm

2001 ASSLH conference – Anti-communism and civil liberties: The 1951 Communist Party dissolution referendum debate at the University of Melbourne

Fay Woodhouse
University of Melbourne

The Menzies Government’s attempts from 1949 to 1951 to ban the Australian Communist Party did not reach the same heights as similar efforts in the United States; however, “The crusade against communism offered a welcome and popular diversion”.^{1 Continue reading →}

2001 ASSLH conference – Indian immigration to Canada: Some historical facts

Surjit Singh
Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur

Migration is not new to the human race. Individuals have always travelled the world driven by adventure, hope, desperation, searching for the ideal place to work and live [McNeill 1984]. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference: Monopoly, overaccumulation and disproportionality in Australian capitalism 1880-1930: A preliminary interpretation and review of labour movement responses

Geoff Robinson
Monash University

Abstract

This paper reviews aspects of the interpretation of Australian monopoly capitalism. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference: Misunderstanding Australian labour: Samuel Gompers, Billy Hughes, and the debate over compulsory arbitration

David Palmer
Senior Lecturer, American Studies, Department Social Sciences Flinders University

Abstract

The compulsory arbitration and award system served as the foundation of Australian industrial relations and trade unionism throughout most of the twentieth century. In the United States, however, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) opposed compulsory arbitration. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference – Engagement: The Colombo Plan and Australia’s working relationship with Asia, 1950-1965

Daniel Oakman
Australian National University

Established in 1950, the Colombo Plan was a comprehensive program of foreign aid provided to South East Asian nations. In this paper I argue that the Colombo Plan had a much broader economic, political and cultural agenda, and cannot be understood from a humanitarian perspective alone. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference: Internationalism and the Indian Seamen’s Union

Julia Martínez
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wollongong

Abstract

The Seamen’s Union of Australia (SUA) was one of the first Australian unions to embrace the practice of internationalism. The formation of the Indian Seamen’s Union in Sydney, 1945 under the umbrella of the SUA appears as part of the heroic history of the SUA. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference: The introduction of the chain system: An ‘Heroic Defeat’ for the AMIEU (Vic)

Marjorie A Jerrard
Monash University

Abstract

Much has been written from the labour process perspective about the chain system of slaughtering and its deskilling of the slaughtermen’s trade. This paper explores the technological change and work reorganisation necessitated by the chain system, from the trade union strategy perspective, using the rational choice framework of the “heroic defeat” developed by Golden. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference: The industrial and political significance of the Queensland Council of Unions, 1922-2000

Simon Fry
University of Southern Queensland

Introduction

This paper provides an overview of the industrial and political significance of the Queensland Council of Unions from the time of its establishment in 1922 to the present.^{1 Continue reading →}

2001 ASSLH conference – The making of a feminist union activist: Claire Kelly and the Victorian Secondary Teachers’ Association

Rosemary Francis
PhD student, University of Melbourne

Abstract

Claire Kelly was an influential member of the central committee of the VSTA from 1975 until 1981, gaining the position of vice-president in that year at the age of twenty-nine years. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference – The life and times of the Barrier Industrial Council: A study in local peak union origins, purpose, power and decline

Bradon Ellem & John Shields
Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

Abstract

The Barrier Industrial Council (BIC) is one of the best known examples of a powerful union peak body in Australia. Upon its establishment in the early 1920s, it oversaw a particular form of working class mobilisation and, for many years, exercised something like a hegemony both for and over its affiliates. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference – Theorising peak union formation, purpose and power: A discussion paper

Bradon Ellem & John Shields
Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

Abstract

Peak unions occupy a constantly moving point of intersection between two competing sets of forces: those of organisational unity and class solidarity and the forces of fragmentation and sectionalism. We suggest that for any group of unions to form a peak body a state of internal equilibrium of power balance must exist between the unions concerned. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference – The paradox of Paddy Lynch

Danny Cusack
Centre for Irish Studies, Murdoch University

Abstract

Patrick Joseph Lynch (1867-1944) emigrated from Ireland to Australia as a nineteen-year-old. He subsequently served as a senator representing WA in the Federal Parliament (1906-38), the last six years as President. Unusually for an Irish Catholic in the Labor Party at this time, he adopted a pro-conscription stance in 1916-17. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference – The flawed history of the movement and the Labor split: How and why the facts were obscured and distorted

Robert Corcoran

Abstract

This paper examines beliefs – where any exist – about the Split and the Santamaria Movement. It concludes that distorted perceptions were created at the time of the Split and have been nurtured ever since. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference – Peak union industrial bodies in Rockhampton: Formation, function and fates

Barbara Webster
Central Queensland University, Rockhampton

Abstract

This paper investigates the origins, roles and destinies of the Rockhampton Trades and Labour Council and its ephemeral predecessors over the past century. Continue reading →

2001 ASSLH conference – Spatial practices and struggle over ground at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops

Dr Lucy Taksa
School of Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour, University of NSW

Abstract

The Eveleigh railway workshops in Sydney were not just a geographic location in which specific industrial activities occurred, but also a political space in which power was exercised by the state, bureaucratic authority, and also through industrial and political mobilisation. Continue reading →

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Category Archives: 2001 Conference

Unions and anti-Chinese agitation on the Victorian goldfields

Unions and anti-Chinese agitation on the Victorian goldfields
The Clunes riot of 1873

2001 ASSLH conference – Anti-communism and civil liberties: The 1951 Communist Party dissolution referendum debate at the University of Melbourne

Fay Woodhouse
University of Melbourne

2001 ASSLH conference – Indian immigration to Canada: Some historical facts

Surjit Singh
Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur

2001 ASSLH conference: Monopoly, overaccumulation and disproportionality in Australian capitalism 1880-1930: A preliminary interpretation and review of labour movement responses

Geoff Robinson
Monash University

2001 ASSLH conference: Misunderstanding Australian labour: Samuel Gompers, Billy Hughes, and the debate over compulsory arbitration

David Palmer
Senior Lecturer, American Studies, Department Social Sciences Flinders University

2001 ASSLH conference – Engagement: The Colombo Plan and Australia’s working relationship with Asia, 1950-1965

Daniel Oakman
Australian National University

2001 ASSLH conference: Internationalism and the Indian Seamen’s Union

Julia Martínez
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wollongong

2001 ASSLH conference: The introduction of the chain system: An ‘Heroic Defeat’ for the AMIEU (Vic)

Marjorie A Jerrard
Monash University

2001 ASSLH conference: The industrial and political significance of the Queensland Council of Unions, 1922-2000

Simon Fry
University of Southern Queensland

2001 ASSLH conference – The making of a feminist union activist: Claire Kelly and the Victorian Secondary Teachers’ Association

Rosemary Francis
PhD student, University of Melbourne

2001 ASSLH conference – The life and times of the Barrier Industrial Council: A study in local peak union origins, purpose, power and decline

Bradon Ellem & John Shields
Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

2001 ASSLH conference – Theorising peak union formation, purpose and power: A discussion paper

Bradon Ellem & John Shields
Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

2001 ASSLH conference – The paradox of Paddy Lynch

Danny Cusack
Centre for Irish Studies, Murdoch University

2001 ASSLH conference – The flawed history of the movement and the Labor split: How and why the facts were obscured and distorted

Robert Corcoran

2001 ASSLH conference – Peak union industrial bodies in Rockhampton: Formation, function and fates

Barbara Webster
Central Queensland University, Rockhampton

2001 ASSLH conference – Spatial practices and struggle over ground at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops

Dr Lucy Taksa
School of Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour, University of NSW

Unions and anti-Chinese agitation on the Victorian goldfields The Clunes riot of 1873

Fay Woodhouse University of Melbourne

Julie Tolley Honours Student, University of South Australia

Glenda Strachan

University of Newcastle

Surjit Singh Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur

Geoff Robinson Monash University

David Palmer Senior Lecturer, American Studies, Department Social Sciences Flinders University

Daniel Oakman Australian National University

Julia Martínez Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wollongong

Liz Macnamara

Marjorie A Jerrard Monash University

Simon Fry University of Southern Queensland

Rosemary Francis PhD student, University of Melbourne

Bradon Ellem & John Shields Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

Bradon Ellem & John Shields Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

Danny Cusack Centre for Irish Studies, Murdoch University

Robert Corcoran

Nikola Balnave PhD Student, University of Sydney

Barbara Webster Central Queensland University, Rockhampton

Dr Lucy Taksa School of Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour, University of NSW

Unions and anti-Chinese agitation on the Victorian goldfields
The Clunes riot of 1873

Fay Woodhouse
University of Melbourne

Julie Tolley
Honours Student, University of South Australia

Surjit Singh
Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur

Geoff Robinson
Monash University

David Palmer
Senior Lecturer, American Studies, Department Social Sciences Flinders University

Daniel Oakman
Australian National University

Julia Martínez
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wollongong

Marjorie A Jerrard
Monash University

Simon Fry
University of Southern Queensland

Rosemary Francis
PhD student, University of Melbourne

Bradon Ellem & John Shields
Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

Bradon Ellem & John Shields
Work & Organisational Studies, School of Business, University of Sydney

Danny Cusack
Centre for Irish Studies, Murdoch University

Nikola Balnave
PhD Student, University of Sydney

Barbara Webster
Central Queensland University, Rockhampton

Dr Lucy Taksa
School of Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour, University of NSW