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Conference Program

The conference had over a hundred papers and events to consider. We have had offers of presentation from Australia, Austria, Germany, India, New Zealand, Netherlands, the US and the UK . Click here to download a pdf of this program.

THURSDAY 30 June
9:00–9:30	REGISTRATION
9:30–10:30	Meredith Burgmann NSW Legislative Council, Opening address Labour history and the labour movement
10:30–11:00	MORNING TEA
11:00–1:00	Stream 1 – Arbitration
	Bob Gould Sydney History repeats itself, Bruce and Howard compared: John Howard's attempts to repeat the industrial relations changes of Melvin Stanley Bruce and how the labour movement may well be able to repeat the successful defence of useful industrial relations systems	Mark Hearn Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney Justice Higgins and his witnesses
	Michael Lyons School of Management , University of Western Sydney Shopping around: Extended retail trading hours and the Retail Trade Industrial Tribunal in New South Wales in the 1980s	Geoff Robinson Arts, Deakin University Labourism in action: Jack Baddeley, the Trade Union Secretaries' Association and the New South Wales Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill 1931
	Stream 2 – Practicing Labour History
	Simon Booth & Verity Burgmann Political Science, University of Melbourne Stuart Macintyre History, University of Melbourne Andrew Milner & Matthew Ryan Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Monash University Vanguards and avant-gardes: The “Reason in Revolt” online project on political and cultural radicalism	Nick Dyrenfurth School of Historical Studies Monash University Class, language and Labor tradition: Towards the synthesis of discourse and experience
	D. Frank, G. Kealey & L. Kealey University of New Brunswick N. Lang Université de Moncton R. Leger Canadian Union of Public Employees N. Ouellet Université de Moncton W. Parenteau University of New Brunswick Canada. Re-connecting with the history of labour in New Brunswick: Historical perspectives on contemporary Issues	Winfried R. Garscha Internationale Tagung der Historiker der Arbeiterbewegung (ITH), Austria Networking labour studies: The ITH experience (1965–2005)
	Stream 3 – Lives of Labour
	Deborah Jordan Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland Léontine Cooper to Rose Scott, the Queensland suffrage movement	John Kellett Economics, University of New England Annie Lane, 'Lucinda Sharpe', first wave feminism and utopian socialism
	Harry Knowles Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney Leadership in trade unions. How history and biography can help	Lucy Taksa School of Organisation and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia. “Beacon of Unity”?: J. S. T. McGowen, Premier of NSW, 1910-1913.
1:00–2:00	LUNCH
2:00–3:30	Stream 1 – Mutuality and Co-operation Group 1
	Nikola Balnave Employment Relations, School of Management, University of Western Sydney Greg Patmore Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney Rochdale consumer co-operatives and Australian labour history	Leanne Cutcher Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney How sustainable is mutuality? The case of two Australian credit unions
	Maxine Darnell Economics, University of New England "Freehold property for mechanics”: A brief insight into Starr-Bowkett societies
	Stream 2 – Nineteenth Century Labour
	Bradley Bowden Management, School of Business, Griffith University A world dominated by youth: Child and youth labour in Queensland, 1885–1900	Robert Walshe Sydney The many gains that have flowed from Eureka
	Michael Wright Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney “Angry Ddisputings”- violence, strikes and demarcation: Relations between paid and unpaid firefighters in Sydney prior to 1884
	Stream 3 – Race and Work
	Jim Hagan Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, and Andrew Wells, Arts, University of Wollongong The British and rubber in Malaya, c 1890–1940	Paul Jones History, University of Melbourne "A consequent gain in the tempo of effort”: Chinese labour and Chinese industrial activism in Australia, 1941–45
	James Wolfinger History and Education, DePaul University, USA " Liberty . . . that's a lot of bunk!”: The meaning of the 1944 philadelphia transit strike to Black Philadelphia
3:30–4:00	AFTERNOON TEA
4:00–5:00	Stream 1 – Locating Labour Women’s Activism
	Cathy Brigden Management, RMIT University Missing women: An historical examination of female activism in the Melbourne Trades Hall, 1880–1920	Rosemary Webb School of Social Sciences, Southern Cross University “You could go to the Trades Hall and meet organisers”: Labour precincts and labour women in interwar Sydney
	Stream 2 – Mutuality and Co-operation Group 2
	Bob James Newcastle Mateship – its secret world: Re-visiting the Australian identity	Tony Laffan Newcastle Co-operatives and the Newcastle Labour Movement 1860–1940
	Stream 3 – Actors
	K. Kevyne Baar Saybrook Graduate School and Research Centre, USA Actors' Equity Association, the McCarthy era blacklist, and managing the common good	Genevieve Picot Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance Equity Foundation, Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
6.00 onwards	Trivia Night/Dinner. Hosted by Sydney Branch of ASSLH, with Senator John Faulkner as mc.

FRIDAY 1 July
9:00–9:30	REGISTRATION
9:30–10:30	Marcel van der Linden International Institute of Social History, Netherlands, Plenary address Labour history. An international movement
10:30–11:00	MORNING TEA, BOOK LAUNCH (A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975; eds. Beverley Symons & Rowan Cahill)
11:00–1:00	Stream 1 – Communism
	Christine de Matos Humanities, University of Western Sydney From the “People's War” to the “People's Occupation”: Australian and Japanese Communists, 1945–1952	Phillip Deery & Doug Jordan School of Social Sciences, Victoria University Fellow-travelling in the Cold War: The Australian Peace Movement
	Bobbie Oliver Social Sciences, Curtin University of Technology Shades of the Cold War: The role of Communist workers at the Midland Railway Workshops	Kerry Taylor History, Philosophy and Politics, Massey University, New Zealand The making of a New Zealand communism? The rise and fall of the Workers' Communist League
	Stream 2 – Indigenous Labour
	Michael Bennett Sydney A long time working – Aboriginal labour on the Coolangatta Estate, 1822–1901	Julia Martinez Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong When wages were clothes: Dressing down Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory
	Jeannie Rea Communication, Culture and Languages, Victoria University The ACTU and the struggles of Indigenous Australians	Sue Taffe Historical Studies, Monash University The WWF and the Aboriginal Rights movement of the 1960s: A North Queensland case study
	Stream 3 – Documentary Films
1:00–2:00	LUNCH
2:00–3:30	Stream 1 – Managing Labour
	Ruth Barton School of Management , University of Tasmania Communal life, common interests and healthy conditions': Industrial welfarism at Electrolytic Zinc, Hobart 1918–27	Sandra Cockfield Management, Monash University Arbitration, business strategy and labour management at Mort's Dock
	Melissa Kerr Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney The importance of consent: Labour management practices at Australian Abrasives 1945–62
	Stream 2 – Gender at Work
	Diana Covell History, The University of Sydney Why women took on BHP: Gender bias and the Wollongong jobs for women campaign 1980–1994	Robyn Hanstock Professional Development and Leadership, University of New England Emerging from the silence: A history of women as adult educators in Australia
	Margaret Ritchie Childhood and Primary Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK "It was a partnership, really. A partnership in the true sense of the word”: Working relationships and gender balance in Scottish fishing families
	Stream 3 – Documentary Films
3:30–4:00	AFTERNOON TEA
4:00–5:00	Stream 1 – Local and Regional Labour History
	Frances Laneyrie Management, University of Wollongong Ray Markey Employment Relations, School of Business, Auckland University of Technology, NZ Exploring the role of 'Region' in working class organisation through film: The South Coast Labour Council (Australia)	John Shields & Bradon Ellem Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney Electoral politics and the broken hill labour movement, 1921–50
	Stream 2 – Women Entrepreneurs
	Joanne Scott Arts and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast Intersections of gender and class: Female employers and self-employed workers in interwar Queensland	Glenda Strachan Centre for Work, Community and Leisure Research and Department of Management, Griffith Business School Lindy Henderson Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle Assumed but rarely documented: Women's entrepreneurial activities in late Nineteenth Century Australia
	Stream 3 – Australia and the UK
	Frank Cain ADFA, University of New South Wales, Canberra NSW Labor Governments at the hands of their hostile British governors	Keith Gildart Humanities, Languages and the Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK An Australian Socialist in England : Kim McKay, the British Left, and European Federalism, 1934–1960
7.00 onwards	Beer, Wine, Food and Chaser Evening (Parliament House)

SATURDAY 2 July
8:45–9:30	REGISTRATION
9:00–10:30	Postgraduate forum, welcome & presentations
	Diana Covell History, The University of Sydney Women campaigning for jobs in steel in Canada and Australia: A comparative study	Kate Deverall History, University of New South Wales Sisterhood and solidarity: Annie Golding, Kate Dwyer and the NSW ALP
	Danielle Thornton History, University of Melbourne "We were sick of being treated like animals”: Class, gender and activism in the Melbourne Tailoresses' Strike, 1882–83’
9:30–10:30	Stream 1 – The State
	Damien Cahill Political Economy, School of Economics and Political Science, The University of Sydney Rowan Cahill Bowral Civilian responses to peace-time military occupation: The 1978 Bowral call-out and its implications for the 'War on Terrorism'	Chris F. Wright Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney Industry policy and industrial relations in the Australian automotive sector: Explaining the present through the past
	Stream 2 – Culture in the Making
	Sarah Gregson Organisation and Management, University of New South Wales Titanic memorials in Australia: The myth and the message	Rod Noble Health, University of Newcastle Class and tradition in singing together: From Europe to New South Wales
	Stream 3 – More Rough Reds – Reflections on Communist Activism
10:30–11:00	MORNING TEA
11:00–1:00	Postgraduate forum, presentations
	Robert Bollard History, Victoria University "The solidarity was misapplied”: The historiography of the Great Strike of 1917	Troy Sarina Law, University of Sydney The call for reform: Explanations for the introduction of non-union collective agreement making
	Nathan Wise History, University of New South Wales Different worlds, different lives: Labour history approaches to histories of the military	Kylie Smith School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong Larrikins, labour and the law in Sydney from 1870 to 1900
	Stream 1 – Labour Politics
	Robert Corcoran Melbourne The Labor split revisited: Old memories and new evidence	Bob Gould Sydney The longest 'Third Period' in history: How the Democratic Socialist perspective, one Socialist sect, has maintained 'Third Period' opposition to labourism without the direct pressure from Moscow that sustained the Communist Party's well-known 'Third Period' experience in the 1930s
	Tony Harris History, University of New South Wales "A sort of brigadoon”? ALP politics and the Residents' Advisory Committee of the Glebe Estate during the time of federal government administration, 1974–1985	Shelton Stromquist History, University of Iowa, USA Making space: Municipal Socialists' challenge to elite rule in New Zealand, Australia and the United States, 1890–1920
	Stream 2 – Trade Unions
	Drew Cottle, Angela Keys & Kristie Martin History, Politics and Philosophy, University of Western Sydney The end of the line: An examination of the 1990 Victorian tram dispute	Marjorie Jerrard Management, Monash University Exporting animals, exporting jobs: Thirty years of campaigning against live export
	Peter Love Politics, Swinburne University of Technology An invitation to a discussion of trade union and workplace culture	Ray Markey Employment Relations, School of Business, Auckland University of Technology, NZ White collar radicals: The NSW Public Service Association, 1899–1939
	Stream 3 – More Rough Reds – Reflections on Communist Activism
1:00–2:00	LUNCH, BOOK LAUNCH (by Jack Mundey of Greg Mallory’s Unchartered Waters)
2:00–3:30	Stream 1 – Women Activists and Equal Pay
	Lenore Coltheart History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Jessie Street and the pursuit of equal pay	Rosemary Francis Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne Muriel's engagement: Muriel Heagney and the struggle for equal pay in Australia
	Wendy Paterson Canberra Ultimate ambition: Eileen Powell's contribution to equal pay activism in Australia, 1929 to 1969
	Stream 2 – Work and Unionism in Building and Construction
	John Elder Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney The 1979 Commission of Inquiry into self-employed contractors in the NSW Housing industry – was it the last hurrah??	David Kelly Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business, The University of Sydney Industrial relations in a deregulated era: Re-appraising Nineteenth Century building unions
	Liz Ross Melbourne, Australia Dare to struggle, dare to win! The 1986 deregistration of the BLF
3:30–4:00	AFTERNOON TEA
2:00–4:00	Postgraduate forum
	Publishing in Refereed Journals Finding Employment
4:00–5:00	MUSICAL FINALE