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Trade Union entry Amalgamated Miners Association of Victoria (1874 - c. 1884)

From
1874
Victoria
To
c. 1884
Functions
Trade Union (State or Territory only)

Summary

Formed on the motion of delegates to a Conference of various miners associations held at Sandhurst (Bendigo) in June 1874. The Association merged in 1884 with several other unions, including the New South Wales coalminers, to become the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia.

Published resources

Books

  • Spence, W.G., Review of the First Ten Years' History of the Creswick Branch No 3 A.M.A of Australasia, Creswick Branch No 3 Amalgamated Miners Association of Australasia, Creswick, Victoria, 1888, 10 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Fahey, Charles, 'Labour and Trade Unionism in Victorian Goldmining', in McCalman, Iain; Cook, Alexander; Reeves, Andrew (ed.), Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, pp. 67-84. Details

Bruce A. Smith