Gordon McCaskie

Brian Boyd

A Trade Unionist

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the public and private life of a prominent Australian trade union and labour movement activist, Brian Boyd. As the child of working class Belfast migrants, he grew up in the industrial region of the La Trobe Valley in Victoria before undertaking higher education in that State's capital city, Melbourne. As an undergraduate, he became involved in radical, Left wing student politics, particularly opposition to the Vietnam War and conscription. After completing a BA and Diploma of Education, Boyd joined the militant union, the Builders Labourers Federation as a rank and file activist on building sites and soon became a full-time official for that organisation. In 1988, he was an elected Industrial Officer for the States union peak council, the Victorian Trades Hall and was elected as Secretary in 2005 and again in 2009. The project focusses on significant public events interpreted through the private experiences of this prominent labour activist, particularly the wider issues confronting Australia's trade union movement over his life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9783659242151
• ISBN-10: 3659242152
• Artikelnr.: 36881741

Autorenporträt

Gordon McCaskie was born in Glasgow in 1958.He emigrated with his family to Autralia in the 1960s. He graduated from LaTrobe, Monash and Swinburne Universities.His work has been in the trade union movement and academia.This is his second publication concerned with Australian trade unionism. Gordon (left) is pictured with Brian