Here are some documents on the Australian labour movement and class history. These help us in knowing where we are now, where we have come from and where we are going as a class.
Reading List:
Brian Fitzpatrick – British Imperialism and Australia, 1783-1833 : an economic history of Australasia
Brian Fitzpatrick – The British Empire in Australia: An Economic History, 1834-1939
Raewyn Connell And Terry Irving – Class Structure in Australian History
E L Wheelwright and Ken Buckley ed. – Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism Volumes I-V
Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee ed. – A Peoples History of Australia Since 1788 Volumes I-IV
Raymond Evans – A History of Queensland
Henry Reynolds – The Other Side of the Frontier: An interpretation of the Aboriginal response to the invasion and settlement of Australia
Robert Ørsted-Jensen – Frontier history revisited : Colonial Queensland and the ‘history war’
Frank Stevens – Aborigines in the Northern Territory Cattle Industry
Dawn May – Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present
Raffaello Carboni – The Eureaka Stockade
Ian Turner – In Union Is Strength: A History Of Trade Unions 1788-1983
Bob James – A Reader of Australian Anarchism 1886-1896
E H Lane – Dawn to Dusk
Gordon V Childe – How Labour Governs
Ian Turner – Industrial Labour and Politics – The Labour Movement in Eastern Australia 1900-1921
Humphrey McQueen – A New Britannia
Jeff Rickertt – The Conscientious Communist: Ernie Lane and the Rise of Australian Socialism
Verity Burgmann – ‘In Our Time’: Socialism and the Rise of Labor 1885-1905
Verity Burgmann – Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: the Industrial Workers of the World in Australia
Ian Turner – Sydney’s Burning
Wendy Lowenstein – Weevils In the Flour: An Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia
Robin Gollan – Revolutionaries and Reformists – Communism and the Australian Labour Movement 1920-1955
Stuart Macintyre – The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia: From Origins to Illegality
Stuart Macintyre – The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning
Tom O’lincoln – The Militant Minority: Organising rank and file workers in the thirties
Tom O’lincoln – Into the Mainstream: The decline of Australian Communism
Hal Alexander and Phil Griffiths – A Few Rough Reds : stories of rank and file organising
Solidarity – Queensland Mt Isa Miners strike
Jon Piccini, Evan Smith and Matthew Worley ed. The Far Left in Australia since 1945
Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann – Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation
Sam Oldham – Without Bosses: Radical Australian Trade Unionism in The 1970s
Jack Hutson – Australian Left Review, Workers Control 1969
Bernie Taft- Australian Left Review, Communists and Workers Control 1969
Australian Left Review- Symposium – Workers Control 1973
Verity Burgmann, Ray Jureidini Meredith Burgmann – Doing without the Boss, Workers’ Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s, Chapter inside: Immanuel Ness – New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism
Frank Stilwell – The Accord and Beyond
Elizabeth Humphrys – How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project
Tom Bramble – Trade Unionism In Australia: A history from flood to ebb tide
