Frontiers of labor : comparative histories of the United States and Australia / edited by Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patmore, Greg, editor.

Stromquist, Shelton, 1943- editor.

Series:

Working class in American history

The working class in american history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--United States--History.

Labor.

History.

United States.

Labor--Australia--History.

Australia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

Contents:

US and Australian Labor: A Comparative and Transnational Perspective p. 1 / Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist

Part 1 The Great War: Repression and Political Countermobilization

Quite Like Ourselves: Opposition to Military Compulsion during the Great War in the United States and Australia p. 15 / Robin Archer

Workers against Warfare: The American and Australian Experiences before and during World War I p. 39 / Verity Burgmann and Jeffrey A. Johnson

Domestic "Dogs of War" Unleashed: The Comparative Fates of Municipal Labor and Socialist Politics in the United States and Australia during the Great War p. 61 / Shelton Stromquist

In Not a Few Respects, a Common History: Women, Wartime Lawmaking, and the Prosecution of Dissenters p. 82 / Diane Kirkby

Part 2 Varieties of Labor Coercion

From Whips to Wages: From Coercive to Incentive-Driven Labor p. 107 / Jennie Jeppesen

Union-Avoidance Strategies in the Meat Industry in Australia and the United States p. 128 / Marjorie A. Jerrard and Patrick O'Leary

Part 3 Ethnicity and Class Identity: The Irish Diaspora in Australia and the United States

Catholic Irish Australia and the Labor Movement: Race in Australia and Nationalism in Ireland, 1880S-1920S p. 149 / Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall

Gatekeepers and "Americanizers": Irish Americans and the Creation of a Multicultural Labor Movement in the United States, 1880S-1920S p. 168 / James R. Barrett

Part 4 Working-Class Collective Action and Labor Regulation

Causes of Railroad Labor Conflict: The Case of Queensland, Australia, and the Northern US Plains, 1880-1900 p. 191 / Bradley Bowden and Peta Stevenson-Clarke

Comparative Mutinies: Case Studies of Working-Class Agency in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1863, and the Australian Imperial Force, 1918 p. 209 / Nathan Wise

Part 5 Economic Democracy and Working-Class Institutions

How to Build a Trade Union Oligarchy: Guidance from the United States and Australia, 1886-1970 p. 227 / Scott Stephenson

The Experience of Labor in the Age of Reform: Workers' Subjectivity, Welfare Legislation, and Liberal Hegemony in 1930s Australia and the United States p. 246 / Benjamin Huf

Controlling Consumption: A Comparative History of Rochdale Consumer Cooperatives in Australia and the United States p. 266 / Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave

Part 6 Transnational Working-Class Politics

Anarchy at the Antipodes: Australian Anarchists and Their American Connections, 1885-1914 p. 289 / Tom Goyens

An Agitator Abroad: P. H. Hickey, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, 1900-1930 p. 309 / Peter Clayworth

Harry Bridges's Australia, Australia's Harry Bridges p. 328 / Robert Cherny

Conclusion: Harvesting the Fruits of Transnational and Comparative History p. 347 / Sheltan Stromquist and Greg Patmore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252041839

0252041836

9780252083457

0252083458

OCLC:

1004761520