Charles Fahey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 514119 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charles Fahey |
| NOMBRES | Charles |
| APELLIDO | Fahey |
| FIRMA | FAHEY C |
| AFILIACIONES | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5858-5038 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914
The Bryant & May company is well known for its operations in Britain. Historians have paid less attention to the actions of the company overseas. The opening of a new Australian subsidiary factory in 1909 marked an early venture in multinational manufacturing within the British Empire. This article uses business records and newspapers from both the British and Australian archives to examine the day-to-day operations of this multinational, with a …
Agricultural Settlement in Victoria's Last Frontier
Boom
In the past decade the mining industry in Australia has enjoyed a period of enormous profitability due to the prodigious growth of the Chinese economy. In Boom Malcolm Knox reminds us that this is
The Great Strike of 1917 in Victoria
The strike of 1917 in Melbourne had its origins in the industrial changes that took place in the city in the first two decades of the twentieth century, and the industrial tensions of the decade before the war were exacerbated by the circumstances of war. Unemployment, seasonal and general, made men vulnerable to moral blackmail to enlist, true victims of 'economic conscription.' And the fact that industrial confrontation persisted into 1919-20 s…
Work and Wages at a M elbourne Factory, the G uest B iscuit Works 1870–1921
The story of wages in nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century A ustralia has largely been told through official published statistics and the experiences of skilled artisans and construction labourers. Utilising wage book data from an early successful manufacturing plant – a biscuit factory – we reveal the earning histories of several neglected groups of A ustralian workers. We specifically investigate the effects of the 1890s depression, the intr…
Up From the Underworld
Andrew Reeves , Up From the Underworld: Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909 to 1968 . Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2011 . xvii + 164 pp. ISBN : 978 0 9806512 6 3 . Paperback AUD $39.95 . In his history of the Victorian State Coal Mine, Andrew Reeves observes that early attempts to mine black coal in the Gippsland district of Victoria faced numerous problems. ‘These in included the operational problems facing an industry charact…
Silent forms of coercion
From 1890 through the early decades of the twentieth century, the Colonial Sugar Refinery under the leadership of Edward Knox introduced a wide range of welfare measures including pensions, sickness benefits, company housing and company loans for houses. Through these measures Knox hoped to insulate his workforce from unions and state regulation of the labour market. However, his workforce lived and worked in industrial suburbs where they could c…
Integrating the Historiography of the Nineteenth‐century Gold Rushes
In the century preceding World War I, the world experienced a series of gold rushes. The wealth derived from these was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was generally unprofitable for diggers and mine owners, the increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. In this introductory article we integrate the histories of migration, trade, colonisation…
Peopling the Victorian Goldfields
Victoria experienced a surge of migration after the discovery of gold in 1851. I explore the social and geographic background of migrants lured to the colony by opportunities opened up by gold mining. When alluvial gold was exhausted, the skills of migrants enabled them to exploit the more difficult deep lead and quartz reef gold deposits and to establish cities and towns. Urban growth was encouraged by high marriage and birth rates in the 1860s.…
Working at Sunshine
In the 1950s unemployment in Australia fell to record low levels. Official records record the low levels of unemployment but tell little about the way workers and employers reacted to this new environment. The personnel records of Massey-Ferguson at Sunshine are a window into the world of manufacturing work in the 1950s. Through a sample drawn from individual employee records we explore how workers at a major manufacturing firm reacted to a full-…
Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works
The Sunshine Harvester Works, occupying the same site from 1906 until 1987, was unquestionably one of the more significant workplaces in the history of industrial relations in twentieth-century Aus
Unskilled male labour and the beginnings of labour market regulation, Victoria 1901–1914
This paper examines the position of unskilled male labourers in Victoria from 1900 to 1914. It looks at the demand for unskilled work in the Edwardian economy and examines the diversity of workplaces in which the unskilled were found. Unskilled labourers had a precarious hold on employment and the paper examines their continual search for work. Work itself was varied in the physical demands made on men, and few labouring jobs were without acquire…
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
A Kind of Elysium Where Nobody Has Anything Difficult to Do
The Maritime Strike
The aristocracy of labour in victoria, 1881–1911∗
Abusing the Horses and Exploiting the Labourer
In July 1876, Joseph Jenkins, a Welsh born agricultural labourer, recorded a familiar lament in his journal: 'out of work again, and the beginning of winter too. Prospects of getting work are bleak/ The following February he wrote: 'finished the corn harvest, and I cannot see any prospect of more work.'1 In recording his tribulations in the rural labour market of nineteenth century Victoria, Jenkins was an unusual agricultural labourer. All that …
A Boom for Whom? Some Developments in the Australian Labour Market, 1870-1891
The Benefits of Old Age
The Cost of Living Longer
Boom
In the past decade the mining industry in Australia has enjoyed a period of enormous profitability due to the prodigious growth of the Chinese economy. In Boom Malcolm Knox reminds us that this is
A Boom for Whom? Some Developments in the Australian Labour Market, 1870-1891
Unskilled male labour and the beginnings of labour market regulation, Victoria 1901–1914
This paper examines the position of unskilled male labourers in Victoria from 1900 to 1914. It looks at the demand for unskilled work in the Edwardian economy and examines the diversity of workplaces in which the unskilled were found. Unskilled labourers had a precarious hold on employment and the paper examines their continual search for work. Work itself was varied in the physical demands made on men, and few labouring jobs were without acquire…
Abusing the Horses and Exploiting the Labourer
In July 1876, Joseph Jenkins, a Welsh born agricultural labourer, recorded a familiar lament in his journal: 'out of work again, and the beginning of winter too. Prospects of getting work are bleak/ The following February he wrote: 'finished the corn harvest, and I cannot see any prospect of more work.'1 In recording his tribulations in the rural labour market of nineteenth century Victoria, Jenkins was an unusual agricultural labourer. All that …
The Cost of Living Longer
The Benefits of Old Age
A Boom for Whom? Some Developments in the Australian Labour Market, 1870-1891
Abusing the Horses and Exploiting the Labourer
In July 1876, Joseph Jenkins, a Welsh born agricultural labourer, recorded a familiar lament in his journal: 'out of work again, and the beginning of winter too. Prospects of getting work are bleak/ The following February he wrote: 'finished the corn harvest, and I cannot see any prospect of more work.'1 In recording his tribulations in the rural labour market of nineteenth century Victoria, Jenkins was an unusual agricultural labourer. All that …
The aristocracy of labour in victoria, 1881–1911∗
The Maritime Strike
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
A Kind of Elysium Where Nobody Has Anything Difficult to Do
Unskilled male labour and the beginnings of labour market regulation, Victoria 1901–1914
This paper examines the position of unskilled male labourers in Victoria from 1900 to 1914. It looks at the demand for unskilled work in the Edwardian economy and examines the diversity of workplaces in which the unskilled were found. Unskilled labourers had a precarious hold on employment and the paper examines their continual search for work. Work itself was varied in the physical demands made on men, and few labouring jobs were without acquire…
Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works
The Sunshine Harvester Works, occupying the same site from 1906 until 1987, was unquestionably one of the more significant workplaces in the history of industrial relations in twentieth-century Aus
Working at Sunshine
In the 1950s unemployment in Australia fell to record low levels. Official records record the low levels of unemployment but tell little about the way workers and employers reacted to this new environment. The personnel records of Massey-Ferguson at Sunshine are a window into the world of manufacturing work in the 1950s. Through a sample drawn from individual employee records we explore how workers at a major manufacturing firm reacted to a full-…
Integrating the Historiography of the Nineteenth‐century Gold Rushes
In the century preceding World War I, the world experienced a series of gold rushes. The wealth derived from these was distributed widely because of reduced migration costs and low barriers to entry. While gold mining itself was generally unprofitable for diggers and mine owners, the increase in the world's gold supply stimulated global trade and investment. In this introductory article we integrate the histories of migration, trade, colonisation…
Peopling the Victorian Goldfields
Victoria experienced a surge of migration after the discovery of gold in 1851. I explore the social and geographic background of migrants lured to the colony by opportunities opened up by gold mining. When alluvial gold was exhausted, the skills of migrants enabled them to exploit the more difficult deep lead and quartz reef gold deposits and to establish cities and towns. Urban growth was encouraged by high marriage and birth rates in the 1860s.…
Silent forms of coercion
From 1890 through the early decades of the twentieth century, the Colonial Sugar Refinery under the leadership of Edward Knox introduced a wide range of welfare measures including pensions, sickness benefits, company housing and company loans for houses. Through these measures Knox hoped to insulate his workforce from unions and state regulation of the labour market. However, his workforce lived and worked in industrial suburbs where they could c…
Up From the Underworld
Andrew Reeves , Up From the Underworld: Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909 to 1968 . Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2011 . xvii + 164 pp. ISBN : 978 0 9806512 6 3 . Paperback AUD $39.95 . In his history of the Victorian State Coal Mine, Andrew Reeves observes that early attempts to mine black coal in the Gippsland district of Victoria faced numerous problems. ‘These in included the operational problems facing an industry charact…
Work and Wages at a M elbourne Factory, the G uest B iscuit Works 1870–1921
The story of wages in nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century A ustralia has largely been told through official published statistics and the experiences of skilled artisans and construction labourers. Utilising wage book data from an early successful manufacturing plant – a biscuit factory – we reveal the earning histories of several neglected groups of A ustralian workers. We specifically investigate the effects of the 1890s depression, the intr…
Boom
In the past decade the mining industry in Australia has enjoyed a period of enormous profitability due to the prodigious growth of the Chinese economy. In Boom Malcolm Knox reminds us that this is
The Great Strike of 1917 in Victoria
The strike of 1917 in Melbourne had its origins in the industrial changes that took place in the city in the first two decades of the twentieth century, and the industrial tensions of the decade before the war were exacerbated by the circumstances of war. Unemployment, seasonal and general, made men vulnerable to moral blackmail to enlist, true victims of 'economic conscription.' And the fact that industrial confrontation persisted into 1919-20 s…
Agricultural Settlement in Victoria's Last Frontier
Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914
The Bryant & May company is well known for its operations in Britain. Historians have paid less attention to the actions of the company overseas. The opening of a new Australian subsidiary factory in 1909 marked an early venture in multinational manufacturing within the British Empire. This article uses business records and newspapers from both the British and Australian archives to examine the day-to-day operations of this multinational, with a …
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