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Author Fitzpatrick, Brian (Brian Charles), 1906-1965.

Title A short history of the Australian labor movement / by Brian Fitzpatrick.

Imprint Melbourne : Rawson's Bookshop, 1944.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead FD  331.880994 F582s 1944    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 221 pages ; 18 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note "First published in November, 1940. New enlarged edition, 1944."
Contents Labor before the gold rushes -- The pioneer unions, eureka, and the eight hours movement -- The trade unions and parliament, 1855-1890 -- The miners' unions, 1855-1890 -- The extension of trade unionism, 1855-1890 -- The great strikes and lock-outs, i, 1890 -- Labor before the gold rushes -- The pioneer unions, eureka, and the eight hours movement -- The trade unions and parliament, 1855-1890 -- The miners' unions, 1855-1890 -- The extension of trade unionism, 1855-1890 -- The great strikes and lock-outs, i, 1890 -- The great strikes and lock-outs, ii, 1891 -- The great strikes and lock-outs, iii, 1892, 1894 -- The Australian labor party, 1891-1917 -- The achievements of labour, 1904-1916 -- No conscription, and post-1918 politics of the working class to 1940 -- The great strikes and lock-outs, iv, 1917 -- The great strikes and lock-outs, v, 1928-1930, and trade union development -- Labor and the war, 1939-1940 -- A bird's-eye view of the workers/ war, 1941-1944 -- The labor-movement and "total" war: experience and prostpects -- The worker's real wage during a century of capitalism.
Subject Labor unions -- Australia.
Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543

 
    
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