Articles
Governor Macquarie’s Job Descriptions and the Bureaucratic Control of the Convict Labour Process
Bill Robbins
‘We have no means of redress unless we strike’: Class, Gender and Activism in the Melbourne Tailoresses’ Strike, 1882-83
Danielle Thornton
‘In bramble of chicanery belated justice stands’: Early Judicial Interpretations of the Factories and Shops Act 1896 (Vic)
Rohan Price
From Labourism to Social Democracy: Labor Governments and Fiscal Policy in the Australian States 1911-40
Geoffrey Robinson
Template for a Labor Faction: The Industrial Section and the Industrial Vigilance Council of the NSW Labor Party, 1916-19
Michael Hogan
Against the Odds: Establishing the Miscellaneous Workers Union in Tasmania, 1949-59
Michael Hess
Under Pressure: The Whitlam Labor Opposition and Class Struggle, 1967-72
Ashley Lavelle
Reassessing the Victorian Trades Hall ‘Split’ of 1967-73
Cathy Brigden
Exploding the Stability Myth: Structural Change in the Australian Trade Union Movement, 1969-85
Kerrie Saville
Dole Bludgers, Taxpayers and the New Right: Constructing Discourses of Welfare
Verity Archer
Research Report
The ACTU Congress of 2006 and its Aftermath
Ed Davis
Report
How Unions Brought the Workers Back to Labor
Peter Lewis
Heritage Report
The Old with the New: Refurbishing the Sydney Trades Hall and Reclaiming Union History
Neale Towart
Conference Report
LabFem2: Feminist Working Class History in Europe and Beyond Stockholm, Sweden, August 28-31 2008
Cathy Brigden
Obituaries
A Legend Among True Believers: Clyde Cameron (1913-2008)
Bill Guy
Balmain Legend, ‘Issy’ Wyner (1916-2008)
Larry Wyner
Oral Historian and Activist, ‘Studs’ Terkel (1912-2008)
Sarah Gregson
Book Reviews
Brian Matthews, Manning Clark: A Life
Roslyn Russell, Ever, Manning: Selected Letters of Manning Clark 1938-1991
Jeff Sparrow
Ken Buckley, Buckley’s! Ken Buckley: Historian, Author and Civil Libertarian: An Autobiography
Andrew Moore
David Day, Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia
Bill Anderson
A.W. Martin, The ‘Whig’ View of Australian History, and Other Essays
Marian Quartly
Deborah Gare and David Ritter (eds), Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788
Rosalie Triolo
Lee-Ann Monk, Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum
Ann Hardy
Kate Blackmore, The Dark Pocket of Time: War, Medicine and the Australian State, 1914-1935
Alex Cameron-Smith
Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival
Michael Quinlan
Michael Roe, Albert Ogilvie and Stymie Gaha: World-Wise Tasmanians
David Bird
Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds), Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s
Ian Cummins
Jan Lingard, Refugees and Rebels: Indonesian Exiles in Wartime Australia
Klaus Neumann
Kevin Morgan, Labour Legends and Russian Gold
Harry Knowles
Patrick Morgan (ed.), B.A. Santamaria: Running the Show: Selected Documents: 1939-1996
Bruce Duncan
Shelton Stromquist (ed.), Labor’s Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context
John J. Rosen
Lawrence Richards, Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
Braham Dabscheck
Tom Bramble, Trade Unionism in Australia: A History from Flood to Ebb Tide
Sarah Gregson
Pete Thomas, The Coalminers of Queensland: A Narrative History of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union, Volume 2: The Pete Thomas Essays
Peta Belic
Ronald L. Lewis, Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
Bradley Bowden
Eric Richards, Destination Australia: Migration to Australia since 1901
Catriona Elder
Sally Davison and Jonathan Rutherford (eds), Race, Identity and Belonging: A Soundings Collection
Sarah Gregson
Melanie Oppenheimer, Volunteering: Why We Can’t Survive Without It
Leanne Cutcher
Book Notes
Christopher Arup et al (eds), Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation
Mark Westcott
Labour History in Song
The Colliers’ Strike Song
Melinda Kendall