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Frontiers of Labor:

Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia

ISBN-13: 9780252041839
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Edited by Greg Patmore, Edited by Shelton Stromquist, Contributions by Robin Archer, Contributions by Nikola Balnave, Contributions by James R. Barrett, Contributions by Bradley Bowden, Contributions by Verity Burgmann, Contributions by Robert Cherny, Contributions by Peter Clayworth, Contributions by Tom Goyens
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Local release date: 14/05/2018
Format: Hardback 394 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Industrial relations [KNXB]

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Google Preview: How workers' experience in two countries illuminates important issues in labor history

Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.

Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations' differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I's impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other's trade union and political cultures.

Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, Marjorie A. Jerrard, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Diane Kirkby, Elizabeth Malcolm, Patrick O'Leary, Greg Patmore, Scott Stephenson, Peta Stevenson-Clarke, Shelton Stromquist, and Nathan Wise; The essays in this volume make a splendid contribution to the important fields of US and Australian labor history.--Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present

Historians cannot do experiments with history, but we can do the functional equivalent by way of comparative history. This excellent collection compares Australian and US workplace experiences. We expect the differences; these sophisticated labor historians also attend to the surprising extent of commonalities,' which seem to have grown over time.--Melanie Nolan, editor of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand; Google Preview content

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Frontiers of Labor:

Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia