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Volume 127 is devoted to union history. With contributions exploring the causes of union decline; the United Automobile Workers (UAW) in the 1950s; the activism of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union to raise their wages; the foundation of the Council for Aboriginal Rights in 1951; using union methods in consumer boycotts against hotels in the first two decades of the twentieth century; the historical context of the conditions, poor pay, and vulnerability of migrant labour in the hotel industry; and the policing of drunkenness as labour management in the early colonial period of Australian history.
You will also find an Historical Note on the campaign to have workers’ assembly halls recognised, protected, and celebrated for their part in the international labour movement history, and a tribute to one of Australia’s most outstanding historians, Lyndall Ryan (1943–2024). The issue closes with a generous selection of book reviews.
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Table of contents
EDITORIAL
DIANE KIRKBY
RESEARCH ARTICLES
EXPLAINING UNION DECLINE: REMAKING POWER RELATIONS IN THE PILBARA IRON ORE INDUSTRY
BRADON ELLEM
TIMOTHY J. MINCHIN
MORE LESSONS OF THE ACCORD: THE 1986–87 PLUMBERS’ UNION DISPUTE
LUCIE NEWSOME, DANIELLE MILLER, AND TONY RAMSAY
JENNIFER CLARK
PARCHING FOR PRINCIPLE: HOTEL BOYCOTTS IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIA, 1901–20
IAIN MCINTYRE
DAVID WILLIAMSON AND CANDICE HARRIS
ALCOHOL, WORK AND PLAY IN CONVICT AUSTRALIA
SHANNON O’KEEFE, MATTHEW ALLEN, HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART, AND MICHAEL QUINLAN
RESEARCH NOTE
INTERNATIONAL STANDING FOR THE RŪNANGA MINERS’ HALL
RUSSELL DEYELL AND AISLA HART
CONFERENCE REPORT
MICHAEL P. R. PEARSON
OBITUARY
JAMES BENNETT
BOOK REVIEWS
IAN ANGUS, THE WAR AGAINST THE COMMONS: DISPOSSESSION AND RESISTANCE IN THE MAKING OF CAPITALISM
MATTHEW D. J. RYAN
RALPH DARLINGTON, LABOUR REVOLT IN BRITAIN 1910–14
ALEXIS VASSILEY
JARED DAVIDSON, BLOOD & DIRT: PRISON LABOUR AND THE MAKING OF NEW ZEALAND
HAMISH MAXWELL-STEWART
BOBBIE OLIVER
MICHAEL EASSON, WHITLAM’S FOREIGN POLICY
RICHARD BROINOWSKI
LINDSAY FITZCLARENCE, THE DIRTY LIFE OF MINING IN AUSTRALIA: A TRAVELOGUE
ROWAN CAHILL
MATTHEW GERTH, ANTI-COMMUNISM IN BRITAIN DURING THE EARLY COLD WAR: A VERY BRITISH WITCH HUNT
JOHN CALLAGHAN
JORDANA SILVERSTEIN
RICHARD S. HILL AND STEVEN LOVERIDGE, SECRET HISTORY: STATE SURVEILLANCE IN NEW ZEALAND, 1900–1956
CYBÈLE LOCKE
ROB MANWARING
JAMES LESH, VALUES IN CITIES: URBAN HERITAGE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA
CHRIS MCCONVILLE
JAN LOKAN AND PHILIP PAYTON, EDS, MORE THAN MINERS: CORNISH ESSAYS FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA
ROWAN CAHILL
DAVID STEPHENS
PHILIPPA MARTYR
MARIAN QUARTLY, THE MIDDLING SORT: A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FAMILY HISTORY
MELANIE OPPENHEIMER
LINDSAY TANNER
SAMANTHA J. SIMON, BEFORE THE BADGE: HOW ACADEMY TRAINING SHAPES POLICE VIOLENCE
MARK BRISKEY
DAVID GILCHRIST
SHELTON STROMQUIST, CLAIMING THE CITY: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF WORKERS’ FIGHT FOR MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM
JANET MCCALMAN
BOBBIE OLIVER
PETER FRAY
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