OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Forced Labour, Indenture and Convict Transportation: A Case Study of the Western Australian Pastoral Industry, 1830–50	7
Solidarity for the Indonesian Revolution	4
BOOK REVIEWS	3
Lindsay Fitzclarence, The Dirty Life of Mining in Australia: A Travelogue	2
EDITORIAL	1
Introduction	1
BOOK REVIEWS	1
LABOUR HISTORY REFEREES	1
Co-operative Education: The Credit Union Foundation of Australia Development Education Program 1991–2013	1
“Don’t Be Too Polite Girls”: Gender Hierarchies and Women’s Leadership in the Meatworkers’ Union in the 1970s	1
A Beaut of a Cut Near Cairns: The Butty Gang System in the Cane Fields in John Naish’s The Cruel Field	1
The Unreliable Witness: Clarence Dakin, ASIO, and Espionage	1
Wide Combs: A Disillusioned Career	1
Thinking Capitalism from the Bedroom: The Politics of Location and the Uses of (Feminist, Queer, Crip) Theory	1
Introduction	1
“Selling Their Jobs?” Thatcherism, Voluntary Redundancy and Worker Resocialisation	0
On Looking Back at Who Are Our Enemies? Racism and the Australian Working Class	0
Luxury and the Australian Labour Press, 1890–1918	0
Neville Kirk, A Nation in Crisis: Division, Conflict, Capitalism in the United Kingdom ; Neville Kirk, British Society and Its Three Crises: From the 1970	0
Thomas Carlyle and the Australasian Labour Movement	0
“Aussies and Stinking Reds”: The Anti-Fascism of the Communist Party of Australia	0
BOOK NOTES	0
The Colonial Ambiguities of Military Labour on the Penal Frontier: The Newcastle Penal Station 1804–24	0
The New Zealand Northern Drivers’ Union: Trade Union Anti-Racism Work, 1937–80	0
Oral History and Intersectional Approaches to Labour History in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Personal Perspective	0

Solidarity and Dilemmas: Tranby, Indenture and the Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Campaigns, 1980s	0
Nature, Labour and Agriculture: Towards Common Ground in New Histories of Capitalism	0
Research Thesis Notice Board	0
EDITORIAL	0
“Fascism Can Only Grow in Secrecy”: Greek and Yugoslavian Anti-Fascism in Melbourne’s “Long 1960s”	0
BOOK REVIEWS	0
LABOUR HISTORY PRIZES 2021	0
Jared Davidson, Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand	0
Sweated Labour among Clothing Outworkers at the Start of the Twenty-First Century	0
EDITORIAL	0
Richard S. Hill and Steven Loveridge, Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900–1956	0
NOTICE BOARD	0
Carceral Frontiers: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’s Pacific	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022)	0
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD	0
Explaining Union Decline: Remaking Power Relations in the Pilbara Iron Ore Industry	0
Deindustrialisation and the Origins of the Care Economy: Reworking Class Analysis with a US Case Study	0
“Our Side of the Story”: The Political Memoirs of the Rudd–Gillard Labor Cabinet	0
Remembering Moss Cass, 1927–2022: Whitlam Minister and Champion of Progressive Causes	0
Migrant Labour and Their “Capitalist Compatriots”: Towards a History of Ethnic Capitalism	0
Union Industrial Responses to Escalation in Live Cattle Export in Brisbane, 1978	0
So How Did We Get Here? A Historical Case Study of Migrant Employment in the New Zealand Hotel Sector	0
Working-Class Women’s Writing of Activism and Imprisonment: Political Violence and Emotions in Cold War Italy	0
“Temper Discipline with Kindness”: Female Officers at the Old Melbourne Gaol and City Watch House, 1845–1935	0
Marian Quartly, The Middling Sort: A South Australian Family History	0
Putting Capitalism in Its Place: Economies of Worth and the Practice of Australian History	0
Shelton Stromquist, Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism	0
Aboriginal Worlds and Australian Capitalism	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
“Ain’t I a Bastard, Well I Received My Training in Aussie”: The Life of Frank Maybank, an Australian Trade Unionist in Central Africa	0
Historical Developments in the Gender Pay Gap in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Longitudinal Employment Relations Critique	0
“A Bloody Migrant Who Thinks He Can Run a Union”: The Case of Jerzy Bielski, a Migrant Trade Unionist in 1950s Australia	0
Ken Reiman, Ron Carey and the Teamsters: How a UPS Driver Became the Greatest Union Reformer of the Twentieth Century	0
Engineers and Social Engineering: Professional/Trade Unions and Social Mobility	0
Labour History: Volume 120, Issue 1	0
Labor, the External Affairs Power and the Rights of Aborigines	0
Alcohol, Work and Play in Convict Australia	0
(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 2023	0
Samantha J. Simon, Before the Badge: How Academy Training Shapes Police Violence	0
Cheryl Buchanan: Activist, Mentor, Publisher	0
The Palimpsest of Welfarism: Enduring Layers of Paternalism in a New Zealand Industry Town	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
Movement, Academy, Struggle: The Transformations of Labour History, Past, Present, and Future	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
BOOK REVIEWS	0
James Lesh, Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia	0
Jan Lokan and Philip Payton, eds, More than Miners: Cornish Essays from South Australia	0
EDITORIAL	0
“At Work, in Hospital, or in Gaol”: Women in British Guiana’s Jails, 1838–1917	0

Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson with Christine Bigby, Richard Broome, and Katie Holmes, Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities	0
Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021)	0
An Editorial View	0
Evan Smith, Jayne Persian, and Vashti Jane Fox, eds, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia	0
Labour History: Volume 122, Issue 1	0
Ian Angus, The War against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism	0
Introduction: Political Implications for the New History of Capitalism	0
Anti-Communism in the Unions: The Case of the Federated Clerks’ Union in South Australia, 1944–60	0
Adrian Weir, UNITE History Volume 6 (1992–2010): The Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU): Unity for a New Era	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
“The Best Way to Help Vietnam is to Make Revolution in Your Own Country”: Student Radicalism at Flinders University in the Long 1960s	0
Speed-Ups and Related Problems: The UAW and Grassroots Grievances in the Immediate Post-World War II Period	0
“Pony Up!” Managing Destitution among Grooms from Australia in British India	0
Sally Young, Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires ; Sally Young, Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires<	0
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 2022	0
Compensation Hid Behind Asbestos Walls: Class, Protest, and Justice in the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
Pictorial: An Editorial History	0
Donny Gluckstein and Janey Stone, The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, Resistance Fighters & Firebrands	0
Book Notes	0
The Australian Railways Union and Rank and File Democracy in New South Wales, 1925–60	0
Notice Board	0
BOOK REVIEWS	0
The Legacies of British Slavery in Australia’s Labour History	0
Surviving School and “Survival Schools”: Resistance, Compulsion and Negotiation in Aboriginal Engagements with Schooling	0
Shopgirls as Consumers: Selling Popular Music in 1920s Australia	0
Parching for Principle: Hotel Boycotts in Regional Australia, 1901–20	0
Paying Aboriginal Rural Workers: Racism, the Labour Market and Worker Agency	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
Matthew Gerth, Anti-Communism in Britain during the Early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt	0
The Radical Arm of the Welfare Lobby: A History of the Victorian Coalition Against Poverty and Unemployment, 1980–91	0
Managerial Capitalism and White-Collar Professions: Social Mobility in Australia’s Corporate Elite	0
Peter John Love (1947–2023)	0
Socialist Settlers on a Capitalist Frontier: The Contradictions of New Australia, Paraguay	0
“A Calculating Blow”: The 1937 Melbourne Stay-In Strike	0
Book Reviews	0
The 1973 Migrant Workers’ Conference and Histories of Multiculturalism	0
Raymond Arthur Markey (1949–2022)	0
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD	0
Labour, History and Labour History: Writing from a Business School	0
More Lessons of the Accord: The 1986–87 Plumbers’ Union Dispute	0
Sickness and Slavery: Reflecting upon Aboriginal Domestic Workers and Disease in Australian History	0
Labour History: Volume 121, Issue 1	0
The Radical Left and the Movement in Australia against the First Gulf War, 1990–91: Anti-Imperialism at the End of the Cold War	0
“Stopping the Mad Stampede”: The New South Wales Labor Party Opposes Sending More Men Overseas and Favours Home Defence, May–June 1918	0
Mary Davis, UNITE History Volume 5 (1974–1992): The Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU): From Zenith to Nadir?	0
Michael Easson, Whitlam’s Foreign Policy	0
“Guiding the Wobbly Hand of Justice”: The Early Years of the Council for Aboriginal Rights, c. 1951–55	0
“Part of What We Thought and Felt”: Antifascism, Antisemitism and Jewish Connections with the New Theatre	0
Lost Debates: The Australian Labor Party and World War I, 1918	0
British Colonialism and Prison Labour in Inter-War Palestine	0
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD	0
Lyndall Ryan (1943–2024)	0
International Standing for the Rūnanga Miners’ Hall	0
Nick Mansfield and Martin Wright, Made by Labour: A Material and Visual History of British Labour c. 1780–1924	0
Who Are the True Believers? The Manning Clark Labor History Memorial Lecture	0
Labour History and the “Neoliberal Era”: Context and Conceptualisation	0
EDITORIAL	0
The Proletarian and the Political Challenge of Communism on the Australian Left	0
My Mother, Ethel Rosenberg	0
Obstacle Course: Women’s Entry into Skilled Positions in the Newcastle Steel Industry, 1980–2000	0
NOTICE BOARD	0
New Histories and the Return of Crisis: Labour History at 60	0
RESEARCH NOTICE BOARD	0
Labour in the Technocratic Frame: Macroeconomic Policy and Wages in 1950s Australia	0
EDITORIAL	0
Communists and the 1933 Campaign That Ended Frontier Massacres in Australia	0
EDITORIAL	0
The Fragility of Governmentality and Domination: The State, Carceral Labour and “(In)docile Resistance” in the Late Ottoman Empire	0
LABOUR HISTORY REFEREES	0
Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain 1910–14	0
Anti-Imperialism and International Solidarity in Central Australia 1980–2000	0
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History	0
“An Active and Conscious Agent”? Ric Throssell and Soviet Espionage	0