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Books

  • Hearn, Mark and Knowles, Harry, One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers' Union 1886-1994, Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Victoria, 1996, 377 pp. [ Details ]

  • Hughes, Helen, The Australian Iron and Steel Industry, 1848-1962, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1964, 213 pp. [ Details ]

  • MacPherson, J., The Early History of the Australian Workers' Union, Victorian and Riverina Branch of the A.W.U., Melbourne, 1943, 24 pp. [ Details ]

  • Merritt, John, The Making of the AWU, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1986, 432 pp. [ Details ]

  • Murphy, D.J. (ed), The Big Strikes, Queensland 1889-1965, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, Queensland, 1983, 303 pp. [ Details ]

  • Spence, W.G., History of the A.W.U, The Worker Trustees, Sydney, 1961, 125 pp. [ Details ]

  • Tsokhas, K., Employer Organizations and the Australia Workers' Union in Transition, Working Papers in Economic History (Australian National University) No 113", Canberra, 1988, 385 pp. [ Details ]

  • Williams, Cecil Wallace Edgar, Yellow, green and red, Worker Newspaper, Brisbane, 1967, 408 pp. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • Cameron, Clyde, 'When Incompetence and Corruption Merge: the AWU and the World Newspaper', Labour History, no. 70, 1996, pp. 169-181. [ Details ]

  • Coward, D., 'Crime and Punishment', Labour History, no. 24, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1973, pp. 51-80. [ Details ]

  • Deery, P., 'Chifley, the Army and the 1949 Coal Strike', Labour History, no. 68, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1995, pp. 80-97. [ Details ]

  • Guyatt, J, 'The Labor Government and the Queensland Shearers' Strike of 1956', Labour History, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1977, pp. 53-64. [ Details ]

  • Hagan, James, 'Unions: Context & Perspective 1850-1980', Australian Unions; eds Bill Ford & D Plowman, 1983, pp. 30-58. [ Details ]

  • Hearn, M. (Palmer, D., Shanahan, R. & Shanahan, M. (eds)), 'Mates and Strangers: The Ethos of the Australian Workers Union', Australian Labour History Reconsidered, Australian Humanities Press, Adelaide, 1999, pp. 18-37. [ Details ]

  • Higgins, E.M., 'Queensland Labor: Trade Unionists versus Premiers', Historical Studies - Australia and New Zealand, vol. 9, no. 34, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1960, pp. 140-155. [ Details ]

  • Hope, Deborah, 'AWU: 100 Turbulent Years at the Barricades', The Bulletin, vol. 11, 1986, pp. 60-66. [ Details ]

  • Hunt, D., 'Exclusivism and Unionism', Labour History, no. 35, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1978, pp. 80-95. [ Details ]

  • Kennedy, K.H., 'The South Johnstone Strike and Railway Lockout, 1927', Labour History, no. 31, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1976, pp. 1-13. [ Details ]

  • Palmer, D. (Palmer, D., Shanahan, R. & Shanahan, M. (eds)), 'Too many men on the scrapheap: Mining Union Struggles over Health and Safety at Broken Hill and Mount Isa Between the World Wars', Australian Labour History Reconsidered, Australian Humanities Press, Adelaide, 1999, pp. 51-74. [ Details ]

  • Rimmer, Malcolm, 'Long-run Structural Change in Australian Trade Unionism', Journal of Industrial Relations, 1981, pp. 323-343. [ Details ]

  • Sheldon, Peter, 'System and Strategy: The Changing Shape of Unionism among NSW Construction Labourers, 1910-19', Labour History, no. 65, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1993, pp. 115-135. [ Details ]

  • Sheridan, Tom, 'A Case Study in Complexity: The Origins of the 1945 Steel Strike in New South Wales', Labour History, no. 41, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1981, pp. 105-109. [ Details ]

  • Sheridan, Tom, 'The 1945 Steel Strike: Trade Unions, The New Order and Mr. Chifley', Labour History, no. 42, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1982, pp. 1-26. [ Details ]

  • Sykes, Edward I., 'Mount Isa Affair', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 7, no. 3, 1965, pp. 265-280. [ Details ]

  • Tsokhas, Kosmas, 'The Shearing Labour Process, 1900-1914', Labour History, no. 59, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1990, pp. 87-103. [ Details ]

  • Way, Nicholas, 'Union Solidarity over Weipa Hides a Split', Business Review Weekly, no. 27, 1995, p. 20. [ Details ]

  • Young, I., 'Changes within the NSW Branch of the Australian Workers Union 1919-1924', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 6, no. 1, 1964, pp. 51-60. [ Details ]

  • Young, I., 'NSW One Big Union, 1918-1919', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 6, no. 3, 1964, pp. 226-238. [ Details ]

See also
  • Blackmur, Douglas, 'Arbitration, legislation and industrial peace: Queensland in the reconstruction years', Labour History, no. 63, 1992, pp. 115-134. [ Details ]

  • Eklund, Erik, 'The 'Place' of Politics: Class and Localist Politics at Port Kembla, 1900-30', Labour History, no. 78, 2000, pp. 94-115. [ Details ]

  • Lansbury, Coral, 'William Guthrie Spence', Labour History, no. 13, 1967, pp. 3-10. [ Details ]

  • Markey, Ray, 'Women & Labour, 1880-1900', Women class & history; ed E Windschuttle, Australian Humanities Press, Adelaide, 1980, pp. 83-111. [ Details ]

  • Martinez, Julia, 'Questioning "White Australia": Unionism and "Coloured" Labour, 1911-37', Labour History, no. 76, 1999, p. 43466. [ Details ]

  • Pervan, R., 'Leadership Influence on the Nature of the Political Party: The Case of the W.A. Branch of the A.L.P. in the 'thirties', Labour History, no. 19, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1970, pp. 37-54. [ Details ]

  • Proctor, S.K., 'The Rise and Decline of the Australian Building Industry Employees' Union in Brisbane 1912-1918', Labour History, no. 13, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1967, pp. 26-32. [ Details ]

  • Rawson, J., 'Industrial Relations in the Australian Paper-makers Union 1900-1952', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 5, no. 1, 1963, pp. 38-52. [ Details ]

  • Woodward, A.E., 'Industrial Relations 1966-1967', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 9, no. 2, 1967, pp. 97-106. [ Details ]

  • Young, I., The Impact of J.T. Lang on the N.S.W. Labor Party 1929-43 (MA Thesis), University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1963, 120-129 pp. [ Details ]


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Published by University of Melbourne, 7 March 2002
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