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Ironworkers Speak for Peace
National Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia
Sydney: National Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, No date.Report of the rank and file members of the Ironworker’s Union that attended the 2nd World Peace Congress in Warsaw, Poland, November, 1950.
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Tom Barker and the I. W. W.
E. C. Fry; Tom Barker
Canberra: The Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, 1965.Recorded, edit and with an introduction by E.C. Fry. Interview transcripts with Tom Barker regarding his work for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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The Development of the Labour Movement in the Sydney District of New South Wales
Leila Thomas
Canberra: The Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, 1962.Being a discussion of the relation between the Labour Movement and current politics from 1788-1848 presented by the author as an M.A. thesis at the University of Sydney in 1919. The original thesis was missing for many years; this copy reproduced by The Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, Canberra, with the permission of the author, is a replica of a draft copy held in the Archives Section at the Australian National University.
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Woolloomooloo: Save The Loo Now
Brenda Humble
Sydney: Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development, 1976.A record of the fight of residents and unions to preserve the working class residences of the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo that came under threat by developers in the 1970s. Includes a photographic record of many buildings, as well as resident reflections, protest chants, organising posters, and newsclippings from the time.
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Amalgamated Engineering Union Souvenir 25th Anniversary, 1920-1945
Amalgamated Engineering Union
Sydney: The Worker Trustees for the Amalgamated Engineering Union, 1946.This copy signed by Union Chairman J. A. Cranwell.
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Gender At Work
Ann Game; Rosemary Pringle
Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. -
My Descent from Soapbox to Senate
Senator Gordon Brown
Brisbane: Co-operative Press, 1953.Gordon Brown was a remarkable Australian political agitator, who by his own admission had no time for “the dominating and dictatorial do-littles who claim superiority over the working plugs.” Having stood up for those “working plugs” his whole life, it was only reluctantly that Brown was convinced to write an autobiography. But, filled as it is with honest and unapologetic lessons on what Australia needed, then and now, he wrote an Australian political biography that is also a true national classic.