Labour History

Papers
(The TQCC of Labour History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forced Labour, Indenture and Convict Transportation: A Case Study of the Western Australian Pastoral Industry, 1830–503
Solidarity for the Indonesian Revolution2
Introduction2
Introduction: New Essays on Women’s Labour History in Europe: Gender, Work and Activism1
Lindsay Fitzclarence, The Dirty Life of Mining in Australia: A Travelogue1
“Don’t Be Too Polite Girls”: Gender Hierarchies and Women’s Leadership in the Meatworkers’ Union in the 1970s1
A Beaut of a Cut Near Cairns: The Butty Gang System in the Cane Fields in John Naish’s The Cruel Field1
EDITORIAL1
Fay Marles (1926–2024): Trail Blazer, Feminist, Changemaker1
What Kind of Health? Mobilisations and Reflections of Italian Working Women on Workplace Health Issues from the 1960s to 1980s0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
(Re)Sources: Historical Inquiry and Labour History Archives: The 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra, 23–25 November 20230
“As a Stewardess Sees It”: Locating Experience and Emotion in the Work of Australian Ship Stewardesses0
Compensation Hid Behind Asbestos Walls: Class, Protest, and Justice in the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales0
Lost Debates: The Australian Labor Party and World War I, 19180
Pictorial: An Editorial History0
Working-Class Women’s Writing of Activism and Imprisonment: Political Violence and Emotions in Cold War Italy0
“Guiding the Wobbly Hand of Justice”: The Early Years of the Council for Aboriginal Rights, c. 1951–550
Kate Laing, Sisters in Peace: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia, 1915–20150
Becoming Visible: Aboriginal Domestic Servants in Digitised Photographic Archives from Queensland and New South Wales0
LABOUR HISTORY REFEREES0
Communists and the 1933 Campaign That Ended Frontier Massacres in Australia0
Lyndall Ryan (1943–2024)0
Speed-Ups and Related Problems: The UAW and Grassroots Grievances in the Immediate Post-World War II Period0
The Unreliable Witness: Clarence Dakin, ASIO, and Espionage0
Anti-Imperialism and International Solidarity in Central Australia 1980–20000
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
Nina Trige Andersen, Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations 1950–20150
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD0
On Looking Back at Who Are Our Enemies? Racism and the Australian Working Class0
Marian Quartly, The Middling Sort: A South Australian Family History0
Alcohol, Work and Play in Convict Australia0
“Stopping the Mad Stampede”: The New South Wales Labor Party Opposes Sending More Men Overseas and Favours Home Defence, May–June 19180
Luxury and the Australian Labour Press, 1890–19180
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD0
BOOK REVIEWS0
The Australian Railways Union and Rank-and-File Democracy in New South Wales, 1925–600
Ken Reiman, Ron Carey and the Teamsters: How a UPS Driver Became the Greatest Union Reformer of the Twentieth Century0
Trouble on the Roads: Using Digital Techniques to Explore Convict Protest in Van Diemen’s Land0
The Colonial Ambiguities of Military Labour on the Penal Frontier: The Newcastle Penal Station 1804–240
Deindustrialisation and the Origins of the Care Economy: Reworking Class Analysis with a US Case Study0
The Radical Left and the Movement in Australia against the First Gulf War, 1990–91: Anti-Imperialism at the End of the Cold War0
Solidarity and Dilemmas: Tranby, Indenture and the Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Campaigns, 1980s0
Movement, Academy, Struggle: The Transformations of Labour History, Past, Present, and Future0
The Fragility of Governmentality and Domination: The State, Carceral Labour and “(In)docile Resistance” in the Late Ottoman Empire0
EDITORIAL0
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD0
Evan Smith, Jayne Persian, and Vashti Jane Fox, eds, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia0
Labour, History and Labour History: Writing from a Business School0
Cécile Brunschvicg (1877–1946) and the Politics of Women’s Work in France, Europe and Beyond0
New Histories and the Return of Crisis: Labour History at 600
“I Am a Farmer and Do Other Chores of Womenfolk”: Uncovering Women’s Work in Rural Southern Europe: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Urbino, Italy0
LABOUR HISTORY PRIZES 20210
Michael Easson, In Search of John Christian Watson: Labor’s First Prime Minister0
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD0
“An Active and Conscious Agent”? Ric Throssell and Soviet Espionage0
More Lessons of the Accord: The 1986–87 Plumbers’ Union Dispute0
Adrian Weir, UNITE History Volume 6 (1992–2010): The Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU): Unity for a New Era0
So How Did We Get Here? A Historical Case Study of Migrant Employment in the New Zealand Hotel Sector0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
NOTICE BOARD0
Iola Mathews, Race Mathews: A Life in Politics0
Hannah Forsyth, Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–20080
Les Louis (1929–2025): Labour Historian0
“The Best Way to Help Vietnam is to Make Revolution in Your Own Country”: Student Radicalism at Flinders University in the Long 1960s0
Anti-Communism in the Unions: The Case of the Federated Clerks’ Union in South Australia, 1944–600
British Colonialism and Prison Labour in Inter-War Palestine0
Mobility and Labour in the Colonial Prison, India c. 1820–70s0
James Robb, To Free the World: Harry Holland and the Rise of the Labour Movement in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific0
Remembering Moss Cass, 1927–2022: Whitlam Minister and Champion of Progressive Causes0
Resisting the Anti-Welfare State Backlash: The Australian Council of Social Service’s Social Welfare Advocacy, 1975–830
Jan Lokan and Philip Payton, eds, More than Miners: Cornish Essays from South Australia0
How to Liberate a Female Proletarian: Women’s Emancipation and (Un)paid Work in the Czech Socialist and Communist Women’s Movements in the Early Twentieth Century0
Richard S. Hill and Steven Loveridge, Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–19560
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD0
BOOK REVIEWS0
Matthew Gerth, Anti-Communism in Britain during the Early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt0
Jared Davidson, Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
NOTICE BOARD0
Michael Quinlan, Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851–18800
Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson with Christine Bigby, Richard Broome, and Katie Holmes, Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities0
Parching for Principle: Hotel Boycotts in Regional Australia, 1901–200
Women’s Voices from La Proletaria: Work, Solidarity and Women’s Emancipation in a Post-World War II Italian Consumers’ Co-operative0
EDITORIAL0
NOTICE BOARD0
Michael Easson, Whitlam’s Foreign Policy0
“Aussies and Stinking Reds”: The Anti-Fascism of the Communist Party of Australia0
Sickness and Slavery: Reflecting upon Aboriginal Domestic Workers and Disease in Australian History0
Ray Peckham (1929–2025): Communist, Trade Unionist and Wiradjuri Leader0
Sally Young, Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires ; Sally Young, Media Monsters: The Transformation of Austra0
Fighting for Life: Class, Community and Care in Labour History: The 17th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Bendigo, 22–24 April 20220
EDITORIAL0
Mary Davis, UNITE History Volume 5 (1974–1992): The Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU): From Zenith to Nadir?0
Neville Kirk, A Nation in Crisis: Division, Conflict, Capitalism in the United Kingdom ; Neville Kirk, British Society and Its Thr0
The Spirit of 1975: Transformations in Australian Labour History: 19th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne, 26–28 November 20250
“Fascism Can Only Grow in Secrecy”: Greek and Yugoslavian Anti-Fascism in Melbourne’s “Long 1960s”0
“At Work, in Hospital, or in Gaol”: Women in British Guiana’s Jails, 1838–19170
“A Calculating Blow”: The 1937 Melbourne Stay-In Strike0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
EDITORIAL0
Raymond Arthur Markey (1949–2022)0
Explaining Union Decline: Remaking Power Relations in the Pilbara Iron Ore Industry0
Alex Ettling and Iain McIntyre, eds, Knocking the Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia0
Panopticon to Plexus: Analysing Colonial Labour and Migration in 1820s NSW0
Oral History and Intersectional Approaches to Labour History in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Personal Perspective0
Nick Mansfield and Martin Wright, Made by Labour: A Material and Visual History of British Labour c. 1780–19240
The 1973 Migrant Workers’ Conference and Histories of Multiculturalism0
Ian Angus, The War against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism0
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022)0
Denis Murphy, Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry0
Introduction0
Photography as Labour and Industry: Reading Photographic Archives of Indentured Labour0
EDITORIAL0
EDITORIAL0
International Standing for the Rūnanga Miners’ Hall0
EDITORIAL0
Recovering the History of Chinese Amahs Travelling to Britain, 1840s–1930s0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
An Editorial View0
Co-operative Education: The Credit Union Foundation of Australia Development Education Program 1991–20130
Paying Aboriginal Rural Workers: Racism, the Labour Market and Worker Agency0
“How Equal Are We?” The Feminisation of Labour in the Yugoslav Retail Sector, 1950s–1970s0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD0
Carceral Frontiers: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’s Pacific0
Experiencing Live-In Domestic Work Through Bodies, Emotions and Subjectivity0
The Maritime Labour Market and the Appearance and Disappearance of Women as Dock Labour in Spanish Ports c. 1870–1930s0
Shelton Stromquist, Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History0
BOOK REVIEWS0
Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone, The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters & Firebrands0
Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain 1910–140
Socialist Settlers on a Capitalist Frontier: The Contradictions of New Australia, Paraguay0
How Well Is Labour History Served by Trove?0
Imogen Richards, Gearóid Brinn and Callum Jones, Global Heating and the Australian Far Right0
Kerreen Margaret Reiger (1946–2026): Feminist Scholar of Mothers’ Labours0
The Legacies of British Slavery in Australia’s Labour History0
The Archive, Digitisation and Labour’s History: An Introduction0
James Lesh, Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia0
Who Are the True Believers? The Manning Clark Labor History Memorial Lecture0
Hidden Voices: Exploring South Sea Islander Narratives in the James Cook University Library’s Special Collections0
“No One Has Raised Their Voice in Support of the Gypsy, Who Works Honestly”: An Intersectional Analysis of Romani Activist Mária László’s Labour Agendas and Repertoires in 1950s Hungary0
BOOK REVIEWS0
Samantha J. Simon, Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence0
Peter John Love (1947–2023)0
Digitizing the Experiences of Migrant Labour in Qatar0
The Proletarian and the Political Challenge of Communism on the Australian Left0
NOTICE BOARD0
Gary S. Cross, Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal0
“Temper Discipline with Kindness”: Female Officers at the Old Melbourne Gaol and City Watch House, 1845–19350
Labour Activists’ Archival Assemblages and Resistibility in Memory Work: Emma Goldman, Jean Désirée, and Rose Pesotta0
Re-Writing History from the Margins: Philippine Labour Migration to and Labour Organising in 1970s Denmark0
“A Bloody Migrant Who Thinks He Can Run a Union”: The Case of Jerzy Bielski, a Migrant Trade Unionist in 1950s Australia0
BOOK REVIEWS0
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