Since the 1930s, research has indicated that unemployment has serious effects on physical
and psychological well-being. Recent evidence confirms these findings and provides …

The dismantling of centralised modes of labour regulation and the emergence of new spatial
divisions of labour under'globalisation'have produced renewed interest in'regional industrial …

Many peak unions are in crisis, their traditional reliance on economic or political exchange
with employers and the state undermined through falling union membership and the …

Broken Hill is one of the few localities in Australia in which a local working class managed to
establish 'hegemony'over the local social and political structure. While many of the ideas …

Purpose–Despite being increasingly touted as the kind of fundamental transformation
needed for union survival,“community unionism” is typically ill‐defined and poorly explained …

This article examines the power and purpose of union peak bodies, focussing on one
particularly powerful organisation, the Barrier Industrial Council in Broken Hill. We argue that …

In the past two decades, trade unions have sought to counter membership decline, initially
through a focus on organizing. More recently the union renewal project has prompted a re …

Economic and labour historians have thus far shown little interest in analysing the operation
and impact of variable, performance–based payment systems in Australia. This is …

Broken Hill's reputation as a bastion of union organising and influence warrants close
reconsideration since even here the pattern of union growth and development was anything …

Since the 1960s there has been a shift in Australian labour historiography away from labour
institutions towards the study of workers and their everyday lives. Despite this, only recently …