Tom Bramble

Trade Unionism in Australia (eBook, ePUB)

A History from Flood to Ebb Tide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the late 1960s Australian unionism was on the flood tide: growing in strength, industrially confident and capable of shaping the overall political climate of the nation. Forty years on, union membership and power is ebbing away despite community support for trade unionism and the continuing need for strong unions. Even the unprecedented mobilisation against WorkChoices, which defeated a government and lost the prime minister his own seat, has done little to turn the tide. With compelling rigour, Tom Bramble explores the changing fortunes of what was once an entrenched institution. Trade Unionism in Australia charts the impact on unions of waves of economic restructuring, a succession of hostile governments and a wholesale shift in employer attitudes, as well as the failure of the unions' own efforts to boost membership and consolidate power. Indeed, Bramble demonstrates how the tactics employed by unions since the early 1980s may have paradoxically contributed to their decline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139810753
• Artikelnr.: 53052254

Autorenporträt

Tom Bramble has been a socialist activist since the 1970s in Britain and Australia. He is a founding member of Socialist Alternative and a member of its National Executive. He writes regularly for Red Flag and Marxist Left Review. One of his most recent books is "The Fight for Workers' Power: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the 20th Century" (with Mick Armstrong).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables; List of acronyms; Preface; Introduction; 1. Trade unionism in the postwar boom, 1945
67; Part I. The Flood Tide: 2. The union upsurge, 1968
74; Part II. The Stand-Off, 1974
83: 3 Economic crisis and the halting of the flood tide, 1974
5; 4. Unionism in the Fraser years; Part III. The Ebb Tide, 1983
2007: 5. The accord, 1983
90; 6. Enterprise bargaining and a revived employer offensive 1990
6; 7. Unionism in a cold climate, 1996
2004; 8. WorkChoices and the defeat of the Howard Government; 9. Results and prospects; Index.