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This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost
coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and
enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries'
mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping
critical elements of these societies in Europe, North America,
Australasia and elsewhere including the introduction of minimum
labour standards (living wage rates, maximum hours etc), workplace
safety and compensation laws and the rise of welfare state more
generally. Notwithstanding setbacks in recent decades, worker
organisation represents a pivotal countervailing force to moderate
the excesses of capitalism and is likely to become even more
influential as the social consequences of rising global inequality
become more manifest. Indeed, instability and periodic shifts in
the respective influence of capital and labour are endemic to
capitalism. As formal institutions have declined in some countries
or unions outlawed and severely repressed in others, there has been
growing recognition of informal strike activity by workers and
wider alliances between unions and community organisations in
others. While such developments are seen as new they aren't.
Indeed, understanding of worker organisation is often ahistorical
and even those understandings informed by historical research are,
this book will argue, in need of revision. This book provides a new
perspective on and new insights into how and why workers organise,
and what shapes this organisation. The Origins of Worker
Mobilisation will be key reading for scholars, academics and policy
makers the fields of industrial relations, HRM, labour economics,
labour history and related disciplines.
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880
provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and
what shapes that organisation. The author's 2018 Origins of Worker
Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing
inequality at work, and regulatory subordination of labour, drove
worker resistance, initially by informal organization that slowly
transitioned to formal organisation. This new volume analyses
worker mobilisation in the period 1851-1880, drawing data from a
unique relational database recording every instance of
organisation. It assesses not only the types of organization
formed, but also the issues and objectives upon which mobilisation
was founded. It examines the relationship between formal and
informal organisation, including their respective influences in
reshaping working conditions and the life-circumstances of working
communities. It relates the examination of worker mobilisation to
both historical and contemporary contexts and examines mobilisation
by different categories of labour. The book identifies important
effects of mobilisation on economic inequality, hours of work
(including the eight-hour day and the beginnings of the weekend)
and the development of democracy. It will be of interest to
researchers, academics, and students in the fields of social
mobilisation, social and economic history, industrial relations,
labour regulation, labour history, and employment relations.
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880
provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and
what shapes that organisation. The author's 2018 Origins of Worker
Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing
inequality at work, and regulatory subordination of labour, drove
worker resistance, initially by informal organization that slowly
transitioned to formal organisation. This new volume analyses
worker mobilisation in the period 1851-1880, drawing data from a
unique relational database recording every instance of
organisation. It assesses not only the types of organization
formed, but also the issues and objectives upon which mobilisation
was founded. It examines the relationship between formal and
informal organisation, including their respective influences in
reshaping working conditions and the life-circumstances of working
communities. It relates the examination of worker mobilisation to
both historical and contemporary contexts and examines mobilisation
by different categories of labour. The book identifies important
effects of mobilisation on economic inequality, hours of work
(including the eight-hour day and the beginnings of the weekend)
and the development of democracy. It will be of interest to
researchers, academics, and students in the fields of social
mobilisation, social and economic history, industrial relations,
labour regulation, labour history, and employment relations.
This is a book on how and why workers come together. Almost
coincident with its inception, worker organisation is a central and
enduring element of capitalism. In the 19th and 20th centuries'
mobilisation by workers played a substantial role in reshaping
critical elements of these societies in Europe, North America,
Australasia and elsewhere including the introduction of minimum
labour standards (living wage rates, maximum hours etc), workplace
safety and compensation laws and the rise of welfare state more
generally. Notwithstanding setbacks in recent decades, worker
organisation represents a pivotal countervailing force to moderate
the excesses of capitalism and is likely to become even more
influential as the social consequences of rising global inequality
become more manifest. Indeed, instability and periodic shifts in
the respective influence of capital and labour are endemic to
capitalism. As formal institutions have declined in some countries
or unions outlawed and severely repressed in others, there has been
growing recognition of informal strike activity by workers and
wider alliances between unions and community organisations in
others. While such developments are seen as new they aren't.
Indeed, understanding of worker organisation is often ahistorical
and even those understandings informed by historical research are,
this book will argue, in need of revision. This book provides a new
perspective on and new insights into how and why workers organise,
and what shapes this organisation. The Origins of Worker
Mobilisation will be key reading for scholars, academics and policy
makers the fields of industrial relations, HRM, labour economics,
labour history and related disciplines.
Labour History: a Journal of Labour and Social History is published
on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour
History. The journal, which has been appearing twice yearly since
1962, is the premier outlet for refereed, scholarly articles in the
fields of social and labour history in Australasia, examining
issues such as labour politics, trade unions, management labour
practices, co-operatives, gender and ethnicity. The
interdisciplinary nature of labour history, and its acceptance of
less traditional sources, including folklore and oral testimony,
make it a fascinating field, alive to past and present social
justice issues. As well as scholarly articles, Labour History also
publishes essays, reviews, and memoirs that reflect the involvement
of labour historians in the making of history. A special issue
about occupational health and safety (OHS), the publication of
Labour History 119 coincides with the 50th anniversary of a
disaster on the site of the construction of Melbourne’s West Gate
Bridge. Labour History is indexed in Cabell's Whitelist and Social
Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
This book examines how convicts played a key role in the
development of capitalism in Australia and how their active
resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It
highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and
political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia's foundational
story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience,
as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can
trace descent from convicts. It will enable the latter to make
sense of the experience of their ancestors, equipping them with the
necessary tools to understand convict and court records. It will
also provide a valuable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
tool and reference for those studying unfree labour and worker
history, social history, colonization and global migration in a
digital age.
Regulating Workplace Risks is a study of regulatory inspection of
occupational health and safety (OHS) and its management in five
countries - Australia, Canada (Quebec), France, Sweden and the UK -
during a time of major change. It examines the implications of the
shift from specification to process based regulation, in which
attention has been increasingly directed to the means of managing
OHS more systematically at a time in which a major restructuring of
work has occurred in response to the globalised economy. These
changes provide both the context and material for a wider
discussion of the nature of regulation and regulatory inspection
and their role in protecting the health, safety and well-being of
workers in advanced market economies. With its comparative nature
and empirical studies, this book will appeal to OHS policy makers
and regulators all over the world, as well as students in the field
of occupational health and safety regulation internationally.
This book examines how convicts played a key role in the
development of capitalism in Australia and how their active
resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It
highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and
political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia's foundational
story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience,
as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can
trace descent from convicts. It will enable the latter to make
sense of the experience of their ancestors, equipping them with the
necessary tools to understand convict and court records. It will
also provide a valuable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
tool and reference for those studying unfree labour and worker
history, social history, colonization and global migration in a
digital age.
A tragic and riveting true story of teenage obsession, torture, and
murder. From Michael Quinlan, staff member of the Louisville
Courier-Journal and the only journalist to interview all the
parties involved, meticulously recounts the shocking and horrific
events surround the murder of twelve-year-old Shandra Sharer by a
group of teenage girls.
Set in the period 1935-1953, Mickey Slabdabber is another amazing
slice of Irish life adding balance to the Limerick of "Angela's
Ashes." Michael Quinlan's hometown is not as bleak as Frank
McCourt's, although there is still hardship aplenty. Linguistic
flair & Celtic originality, intriguing anecdotes and the drama
of an unseen IRA distorting the life of a growing child all help
flesh out our understanding of the Ireland of the day. Yet there is
also art & enchantment, music, theatre & humour in this
true story of the childhood and youth of a Vize's Field lane boy
who wants to be a painter.
The book reflects the author's experience across more than forty
years in assessing and forming policy about nuclear weapons, mostly
at senior levels close to the centre both of British governmental
decision-making and of NATO's development of plans and deployments,
with much interaction also with comparable levels of United States
activity in the Pentagon and the State department. Part I of the
book seeks to distill, from this exceptional background of
practical experience, basic conceptual ways of understanding the
revolution brought about by nuclear weapons. It also surveys NATO's
progressive development of thinking about nuclear deterrence, and
then discusses the deep moral dilemmas posed - for all possible
standpoints - by the existence of such weapons. Part II considers
the risks and costs of nuclear-weapon possession, including
proliferation dangers, and looks at both successful and
unsuccessful ideas about how to manage them. Part III illustrates
specific issues by reviewing the history and current policies of
one long-established possessor, the United Kingdom, and two more
recent ones, India and Pakistan. Part IV turns to the future,
examines the goal of eventually abolishing all nuclear armouries,
and then discusses the practical agenda, short of such a goal,
which governments can usefully tackle in reducing the risks of
proliferation and other dangers while not surrendering prematurely
the war-prevention benefits which nuclear weapons have brought
since 1945.
This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the
Changing Character of War.
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