Peak unions in Australia : origins, purpose, power, agency
Systematically examines labour council's nature and influence at different times, in different places. The book adopts a unique combination of comparative method and conceptual insights from the fields of industrial relations, history, geography, organisational studies and political science
Print Book, English, 2004
Federation Press, Annandale, N.S.W., 2004
x, 274 pages ; 24 cm
9781862875302, 1862875308
60349026
Ch. 1. Introduction / Brandon Ellem, Raymond Markey, John Shields
Ch. 2. Different roads to power: a comparative study of national unions federations / Chris Briggs
Ch. 3. Beyond the 'will to unity': theorising peak union organisation and agency / Brandon Ellem, John Shields
Ch. 4. The Labour Council of New South Wales, 1871-2001 / Raymond Markey
Ch. 5. Product of a community in transition: the first Brisbane Trades and Labour Council, 1855-1888 / John Kellett
Ch. 6. The industrial and political role of the Trades and Labour Council of Queensland since 1922: a reassessment / Simon Fry, John Shields, Brandon Ellem
Ch. 7. The formation and role of an independent trades and labour council in Western Australia / Robbie Oliver
Ch. 8. The Barrier Industrial Council: a study in local peak union origins, purpose, power and decline / Brandon Ellem, John Shields
Ch. 9. Peak unionism in the Illawarra / Raymond Markey, Shirley Nixon
Ch. 10. A podium for politics: the origins and role of the Rockhampton Trades and Labour Council and its predecessors / Barbara Webster
Ch. 11. A fourth level council: the Wagga Wagga and District Trades and Labor Council 1943-1990 / Warwick Eather
Ch. 12. Power and space in the Victorian Trades Hall Council / Cathy Brigden
Ch. 13. The end of a cycle? The Australian Council of Trade Unions in historical perspective / Chris Briggs