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{"title":"“People Treated Me with Equality”: Indigenous Australians Visiting the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War","authors":"Jonathan P Piccini","doi":"10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.111.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.111.0045","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the entwining of Australian communists, trade unions and indigenous activists: a much-studied topic. However, I approach it from a \"transnational\" perspective, unearthing intersections between global ideas and local activism through a case study of how the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and trade union bodies under its control or influence sent particular indigenous activists abroad during the 1950s and 1960s. It looks at why the CPA would invest the time and money in these trips, and what indigenous Australians thought they could get out of them. In so doing, it explores the possibilities and limits of this form of globally-centred solidarity, and adds a new dimension to our understanding of international communist and trade union politics.","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"2016 1","pages":"45-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70735303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Completing the Order’s History Down Under: The Knights of Labor in Australia","authors":"S. Parfitt","doi":"10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The rise and fall of an American movement, the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, in the Australian colonies between the 1880s and the 1900s is a neglected chapter in labour history. This unusual movement, at once a fraternal order, trade union, political grouping and co-operative enterprise, became the first truly national organisation of American workers. The Knights also became a global movement with branches in England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Scholars have explored the parameters of the Order's North American history in great detail. They have not given anywhere near the same level of scrutiny to the Order's history in other parts of the world, however, and this discrepancy is particularly striking when it comes to their branches in Australia. Australian labour historians have never neglected the American ideas, individuals and institutions that helped to shape the early history of the Australian labour movement. Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Laurence Gronlund, Daniel De Leon and the Industrial Workers of the World, amongst others, all have major studies devoted to their activities and influence in Australia. The Australian Knights of Labor, by contrast, have been the subject of only several pages in a small selection of books and articles. This article provides their future historian with the necessary material to fill this gap in the scholarship and mount a proper study of their history. It provides a narrative of their activities in the various Australian colonies, so far as we can ascertain them, and draws attention to the many holes and unclear parts of that narrative. It then provides a series of questions to inform future research into the Australian Knights, compares with them with the histories of Knights in other non-American countries, and connects them to wider fields of historical scholarship, including imperial and global labour history. This article is, in other words, the first sustained study of the Australian Knights of Labor; it also provides the foundation from which a larger study might hopefully come.","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"1 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70735079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The genesis and performance of an Australian wage-fixing system in Papua New Guinea","authors":"B. Imbun","doi":"10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0143","url":null,"abstract":"The functioning of inherited institutions, including those regulating labour markets, in former colonised countries is embedded with their character and history. Yet, there has been surprisingly little academic interest in the changing roles and performance of post-colonial labour market institutions. These institutions can express values - linked to, for example, fairness in decision-making and equitable distribution - strongly held in the colonising country at the time of transplantation. Such values can then shape institutional experience in the colony and post-colonial society. This article examines the establishment and performance, over four decades, of an Australian-styled system for fixing minimum wages established in colonial-era Papua New Guinea (PNG) and centred on the PNG Minimum Wages Board (MWB). The article uses documentary evidence, in-depth interviews and the author's own experience as participant in the important 2000 round of MWB deliberations. In doing so, it highlights how the MWB's composition changed to more fully reflect indigenous circumstances. It also examines how earlier priorities of socio-economic equity amid development, via arguments base on needs, have come under fierce pressures from organised employers' arguments for prioritising capacity to pay at the firm and national level. This reshaped MWB's wage fixing within a largely deregulated bargaining system despite the much more difficult economic circumstances of the lowly paid in this struggling, developing nation.","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"27 1","pages":"143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70735094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Egon Kisch: Supplementing and correcting the biographical record","authors":"T. O'Keeffe","doi":"10.5263/labourhistory.110.0161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.110.0161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"1 1","pages":"161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70735121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pursuing trade union internationalism: Australia's waterside workers and the international transport workers federation, c. 1950-70","authors":"Diane Kirkby, D. Ostapenko","doi":"10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0057","url":null,"abstract":"© 2016 Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. When the Australian Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) decided in 1971 to join the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) it overturned decades of antipathy to the ITF. We ask why union officials held this view and why the union now changed its mind at this particular moment. We argue that while union power was strong in the immediate post-war decades, the WWF was able to pursue its economic goals locally and join international actions for reasons of solidarity. In the following decade, however, union archives reveal that a confluence of technological change and diminishing union strength under a conservative government made international organising a logical and necessary strategy. Under the guidance of General Secretary Charlie Fitzgibbon, the WWF overcame its opposition to the ITF, by then an organisation representing millions of workers worldwide. We concentrate on Fitzgibbon's leadership as a crucial factor in the timing of this historic change.","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"110 1","pages":"57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adopted Apprentices: Juvenile Recruitment in Australian Circus, 1847–1942","authors":"M. Leon","doi":"10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0097","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies on the history of circus in Australia draw attention to the practise of recruiting male and female juveniles as trainee performers to augment a circus family or circus troupe. In ora...","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"1 1","pages":"97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trade unions in Western Europe: Hard times, hard choices [Book Review]","authors":"A. Barnes","doi":"10.5263/labourhistory.110.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.110.0207","url":null,"abstract":"Review(s) of: Trade unions in Western Europe: Hard times, hard choices, by Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 242, US $23.00 cloth.","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"1 1","pages":"207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5263/labourhistory.110.0207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The fifth man","authors":"J. Pomeroy","doi":"10.5263/labourhistory.110.0173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.110.0173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"1 1","pages":"173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professionalism or inter-union solidarity?: Organising licensed aircraft maintenance engineers, 1955-75","authors":"S. Gregson, M. Quinlan, I. Hampson","doi":"10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0035","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent examination of modern-day “worker voice,” Peter Ackers argued that declining membership density should impel trade unions to disavow outdated radicalism, embracing instead more “respons...","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"110 1","pages":"35-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Denis Murphy, the University of Queensland and Labour History, 1966-83: A reassessment","authors":"B. Bowden","doi":"10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44167,"journal":{"name":"Labour History","volume":"1 1","pages":"125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5263/LABOURHISTORY.110.0125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70734863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}