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Author
Bailey, Janis
Title
Blue Singlets and Broccoli: Culture in the Service of Union Struggle
In
Labour History
Imprint
vol. 79, pp. 35-56
Description

This article analyses the 'Third Wave' campaign in Western Australia in 1997 in order to study the dynamics of union culture as 'lived practice'. The research draws on a variety of data collected as part of the recording of a 'people's history' for the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (Perth Branch). What emerges from the study is a picture of the ways in which union culture can be used strategically by unions for campaigning purposes. This study reveals a complex, multi-stranded view of union culture(s) that can be contrasted to the hegemonic, uni-dimensional view of union culture promoted by governments, employers and the media