Del i serien Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation

Australia 1851-1880

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvMichael Quinlan

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-08-11
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
Antal sidor326
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367861780

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1. The Collective Impulse, Mobilisation and Political Economy. 2. Overview of Organisation, Methods and Patterns of Struggle. 3. Transport and Maritime Activities. 4. Worker Organisation in Agriculture and Rural Industry. 5. Mining. 6. Worker Organisation in Building and Construction. 7. Metal/Engineering, Printing and Transport Equipment. 8. Apparel, Footwear, Food/Beverages and other Manufacturing. 9. Retailing/Warehouses, Hospitality, Commercial and Personal Services. 10. Workers in Government and Community Service. 11. Wider Alliances, Peak-Union Bodies and Political Organisation. 12. Concluding Observations.

“Imaginative. Precise. Easy to read. Informative. Insightful. All these are apt descriptions of this book. Yet, they do not do it justice. It is work which constitutes a major contribution to scholarship and policy-making. It does so by inviting, no, by forcing, mainstream scholars and policy-makers to re-think their starting positions… This is a book which should be read by all of us who are students of, and activists in, capital–labour relations. We will profit in the best way: we will be enriched intellectually and, perhaps, inspired to do better.” Harry Glasbeek, York University, Canada"[This work] by Quinlan in many respects constitutes an outstanding resource for coming to grips with the detail of the origins and development of Australian labour law specifically."John Howe, University of Melbourne and Richard Mitchell, Monash University"Michael Quinlan has produced a valuable contribution to Australian labour history, distinguished by originality and by assiduous research. It deserves to be widely read and to inspire future work of equivalent scope and methodological range."Sean Scalmer, University of Melbourne