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Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history.
This new and compelling account from Australia, shows seafaring and
waterside unions engaged in a shared history of activism for
legally regulated wages and safe liveable conditions for all who go
to sea. Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific provides a corrective to
studies which overlook this region's significance as a provider of
the world's maritime labour force and where unions have a rich
history of reaching across their differences to forge connections
in solidarity. From the 'militant young Australian' Harry Bridges
whose progressive unionism transformed the San Francisco
waterfront, to Australia's successful implementation of the
Maritime Labour Convention 2006, this is a story of vision and
leadership on the international stage. Unionists who saw themselves
as internationalists were also operating within a national and
imperial framework where conflicting interests and differences of
race and ideology had to be overcome. Union activists in India,
China and Japan struggled against indentured labour and 'coolie'
standards. They linked with their fellow-unionists in pursuing an
ideal of international labour rights against the power of
shipowners and anti-union governments. This is a complex story of
endurance, cooperation and conflict and its empowering legacy.
Maritime workers occupy a central place in global labour history.
This new and compelling account from Australia, shows seafaring and
waterside unions engaged in a shared history of activism for
legally regulated wages and safe liveable conditions for all who go
to sea. Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific provides a corrective to
studies which overlook this region's significance as a provider of
the world's maritime labour force and where unions have a rich
history of reaching across their differences to forge connections
in solidarity. From the 'militant young Australian' Harry Bridges
whose progressive unionism transformed the San Francisco
waterfront, to Australia's successful implementation of the
Maritime Labour Convention 2006, this is a story of vision and
leadership on the international stage. Unionists who saw themselves
as internationalists were also operating within a national and
imperial framework where conflicting interests and differences of
race and ideology had to be overcome. Union activists in India,
China and Japan struggled against indentured labour and 'coolie'
standards. They linked with their fellow-unionists in pursuing an
ideal of international labour rights against the power of
shipowners and anti-union governments. This is a complex story of
endurance, cooperation and conflict and its empowering legacy.
This study is the first in-depth analysis of the Fulbright exchange
program in a single country. Drawing on previously unexplored
archives and oral history, the authors investigate the educational,
political and diplomatic dimensions of a complex bi-national
program as experienced by Australian and American scholars. The
book begins with the postwar context of the scheme's origins, moves
through its difficult Australian establishment during the early
Cold War, the challenges posed by the Vietnam War, and the impacts
of civil rights and gender parity movements and late 20th century
economic belt-tightening. How the program's goal of 'mutual
understanding' was understood and enacted across six decades lies
at the heart of the book, which weaves institutional and individual
experiences together with broader geopolitical issues. Bringing a
complex and nuanced analysis to the Australia-US relationship, the
authors offer fresh insights into the global significance of the
Fulbright Program -- .
Drawing on the latest contemporary research from an internationally
acclaimed group of scholars, Law, history, colonialism brings
together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies
in a singular exploration of imperialism. In fresh, innovative
essays from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection
offers exciting new perspectives on the length and breadth of
empire. As issues of native title, truth and reconciliation
commissions, and access to land and natural resources are contested
in courtrooms and legislation of former colonies, the disciplines
of law and history afford new ways of seeing, hearing and creating
knowledge. Issues explored include the judicial construction
of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states,
the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land
rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire,
constructions of madness among colonised peoples, reforming
property rights of married women, questions of legal and historical
evidence, and the rule of law. This collection will be an
indispensable reference work to scholars, students and teachers.
In this, the first biography of Alice Henry (1857-1943), Diane Kirkby presents us with an intelligent, formidable woman of great energy who was a pioneer in both the Australian and American labor movements early in this century and a feminist who fought for the rights of millions of women in both countries. Alice Henry The Power of Pen and Voice is sympathetically written and it is clear that in the course of the author's meticulous research she has developed great warmth for her subject and the friends who were central to her life, women such as the Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career, who supported Alice Henry throughout her difficult old age. While empathizing with Alice Henry, readers can increase their understanding of a critical period in history, when progressive networks were far more international than might be expected and women played a central role in the creation of the welfare state.
Popular imagination has made the pub an enduring cultural icon in
Australian life. Since colonisation the pub has played a
quintessential part in Australian life, both socially and
economically. In this mixture of labour history and cultural
history, first published in 1997, Diane Kirkby explores the central
figure of the barmaid. Now a dying breed, she once played the
combined roles of mate, confidante, surrogate-mother and sexual
object. Drawing on previously unused archives, documentary sources
and oral history, Barmaids traces the sexualisation of the industry
and the feminist and temperance debates about it. It covers women's
demands for equal pay and drinking rights in the post-war period
and concludes in the mid-1990s with the labour market changes and
drinking customs which saw the end of the old pub culture and the
place of barmaids within it.
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