Peter Shergold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1196955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Shergold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Shergold |
| SIGNATURE | SHERGOLD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Re‐imagining public service
We live at a time marked by growing distrust of democratic institutions and increasing threats to those Enlightenment values that afford the individual protection from the arbitrary exercise of authoritarian power. In the face of such challenges, we need to re‐imagine more agile, adaptive and responsive forms of governance. This edited speech argues that with sufficient political authority, public services can facilitate the commissioning of prog…
Commentary: Lost in Translation? The Challenge of Informing Public Policy with Evidence
My Hopes for a Public Service for the Future
Postscript
Time moves on.Governments change.Mandarins depart (although, speaking personally, the second and third sentence are unrelated).I have had collected my Cabinet-in-Confidence files, handed back my parliamentary pass and said my fond valedictories to the Australian Public Service.In February 2008, at the end of my contract, I left.I had spent two decades as a public servant.I have moved on (some would say
Governing through collaboration
There are new and exciting changes occurring in the processes of governance, which have profound implications for public services. The provision of policy advice is becoming more contested. The views of officials now compete with those of political advisers, advocacy organisations and policy think tanks. The implementation of policy is increasingly contracted out and delivered through third parties, with the Public Service taking responsibility f…
What Really Happens in the Australian Public Service: An Alternative View
Last week I received a proof copy of an article written by the previous Public Service Commissioner, Andrew Podger. It purports to tell the readers ‘What Really Happens’ amongst department secretaries or, given that this is a highly personal account, Podger's particular perspective on that reality. ‘They are being dishonest or fooling themselves if they deny it,’ said Podger, seeking to pre-empt any defensive ploys on the part of those who contin…
Regeneration: New Structures, New Leaders, New Traditions
Integrated leadership system in the Australian Public Service
On 16 July 2004 the Australian Public Service Commission launched a new approach to leadership capability development for the public service. This approach, the Integrated Leadership System (ILS), is described as innovative and unique by the four speakers who make up this presentation—including Andrew Podger (AO), Public Service Commissioner, Jane Halton, Secretary of Health and Ageing, Anne Simic, Head of People, Qantas, and Dr Peter Shergold, H…
Lackies, careerists, political stooges’? Personal reflections on the current state of public service leadership
Commission Impossible? A New Approach To Workplace Relations in the PSMPC
This is a short story about turning commitment into action. It tells how the Public Service and Merit Protection Commission negotiated with its employees to create a certified agreement under the new Workplace Relations Act 1996. The authors conclude that a careful, consultative process has built greater trust within their organisation
Ethics and the Changing Nature of Public Service
The public sector is held to an ethical standard not demanded of others. It must recognise the distinctive nature of its contribution to the public good and meet a demanding accountability regime. Structural changes pose still further challenges for the public sector. Yet we should be proud of our accomplishments and willing to defend the unique character of public service
End Note
Irish Intercounty Mobility before 1840
Unshackling the Past
Introduction During the first quarter of a century of white settlement in Australia, the economy and society was the creation of convict workers transported from Britain and Ireland. No other period of Australian history evokes such strong images in the popular mind than the convict years. Collectively, Australians perceive their past in terms of a fatal shore, the convict stain and the shame of Botany Bay: the sombre shadows of Australia's histo…
Convicts as Migrants
Introduction The convict settlers were Australia's first migrants. Surprisingly, few Australian historians have recognised that the transported convicts were not just criminals deported to a penal colony. One exception is Geoffrey Blainey whose analysis of the impact of ‘the tyranny of distance’ has done so much to focus attention on the importance to Australian economic growth of importing labour from overseas. By 1830 Australia's population, ex…
Convicts as Workers
Introduction Most historians acknowledge that many of those convicts who rose to pre-eminence in New South Wales society did so on the basis of occupational skills acquired prior to their transportation: Francis Greenway, the west country architect sentenced for ‘counterfeiting’ (concealing assets in bankruptcy) made his mark as colonial architect; William Redfern, the naval assistant surgeon recognised by Macquarie as the most skillful medical m…
Transportation as Global Migration
Introduction Analyses of immigration in the nineteenth century, at least after the end of Britain's slave trade in 1807, have been written within the context of freedom. European migration has been presented in terms of individual response to push and pull forces, and to free choice. The movement of millions from Europe to lands of recent white settlement may have been accompanied by the traumas of uprooting but the pain suffered was born of free…
A Labour Aristocracy in Chains
The identification of the convicts with the criminal class has denied the transported workers membership of the ordinary working class. Not surprisingly, few Australian historians have asked if elite workers, members of a skilled upper stratum of labour aristocrats, were transported to New South Wales. True, Lelia Thomas, in 1919, identified among the convicts a 'labour aristocracy [which] was exceedingly independent and often insolent, creating …
The Impact of Unions on the Voting Behavior of Their Members
Based on a survey of members of AFL-CIO-affiliated unions in Pennsylvania, this paper investigates the influence of unions on how their members voted in the 1984 Presidential election. The authors find that unions had little effect on the number of members who voted but surprisingly strong influence on the Presidential choice of those who did vote. Union members who actively participated in their union, held union leadership positions, and report…
Internal migration in England, 1818–1839
We think we are of the oppressed”: Gender, white collar work, and grievances of late nineteenth-century women
Human capital and the pre-Famine Irish emigration to England
The Family Economy and the Market: Wages and Residence of Pennsylvania Women in the 1890s
Based on a 1894 government survey of 2,925 Pennsylvanian working women, this article analyzes the differences between daughters who remained at home and thus contributed to their family wage economy and those who boarded away. Choice of board location is explained in terms of wages, hours, location, and national origin. Data on boarding costs and wages are used to make inferences about the patterns of bargaining between parents and daughters with…
Steelmasters and Labor Reform, 1886-1923
Working-Class Life: "The “American Standard" in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913
The Impact of Unions on the Voting Behavior of Their Members
Based on a survey of members of AFL-CIO-affiliated unions in Pennsylvania, this paper investigates the influence of unions on how their members voted in the 1984 Presidential election. The authors find that unions had little effect on the number of members who voted but surprisingly strong influence on the Presidential choice of those who did vote. Union members who actively participated in their union, held union leadership positions, and report…
What Really Happens in the Australian Public Service: An Alternative View
Last week I received a proof copy of an article written by the previous Public Service Commissioner, Andrew Podger. It purports to tell the readers ‘What Really Happens’ amongst department secretaries or, given that this is a highly personal account, Podger's particular perspective on that reality. ‘They are being dishonest or fooling themselves if they deny it,’ said Podger, seeking to pre-empt any defensive ploys on the part of those who contin…
Lackies, careerists, political stooges’? Personal reflections on the current state of public service leadership
My Hopes for a Public Service for the Future
Internal migration in England, 1818–1839
Relative skill and income levels of native and foreign born workers: A reexamination
The Family Economy and the Market: Wages and Residence of Pennsylvania Women in the 1890s
Based on a 1894 government survey of 2,925 Pennsylvanian working women, this article analyzes the differences between daughters who remained at home and thus contributed to their family wage economy and those who boarded away. Choice of board location is explained in terms of wages, hours, location, and national origin. Data on boarding costs and wages are used to make inferences about the patterns of bargaining between parents and daughters with…
Wage differentials based on skill in the united states, 1899–1914: A case study
(1977). Wage differentials based on skill in the united states, 1899–1914: A case study. Labor History: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 485-508
Regeneration: New Structures, New Leaders, New Traditions
Integrated leadership system in the Australian Public Service
On 16 July 2004 the Australian Public Service Commission launched a new approach to leadership capability development for the public service. This approach, the Integrated Leadership System (ILS), is described as innovative and unique by the four speakers who make up this presentation—including Andrew Podger (AO), Public Service Commissioner, Jane Halton, Secretary of Health and Ageing, Anne Simic, Head of People, Qantas, and Dr Peter Shergold, H…
Human capital and the pre-Famine Irish emigration to England
The Walker Thesis Revisited: Immigration and White American Fertility, 1800–60
Relative skill and income levels of native and foreign born workers: A reexamination
Wage differentials based on skill in the united states, 1899–1914: A case study
(1977). Wage differentials based on skill in the united states, 1899–1914: A case study. Labor History: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 485-508
The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain
Working-Class Life: "The “American Standard" in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913
Working-Class Life: The "American Standard" in Comparative Perspective, 1899-1913
Journal Article Working-Class Life: The “American Standard” in Comparative Perspective, 1899–1913. By Peter R. Shergold. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. xvii + 306 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, and index. $21.95.) Get access Robert H. Zieger Robert H. Zieger Wayne State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, Decem…
The Economy of Colonial America
Steelmasters and Labor Reform, 1886-1923
The Family Economy and the Market: Wages and Residence of Pennsylvania Women in the 1890s
Based on a 1894 government survey of 2,925 Pennsylvanian working women, this article analyzes the differences between daughters who remained at home and thus contributed to their family wage economy and those who boarded away. Choice of board location is explained in terms of wages, hours, location, and national origin. Data on boarding costs and wages are used to make inferences about the patterns of bargaining between parents and daughters with…
Internal migration in England, 1818–1839
We think we are of the oppressed”: Gender, white collar work, and grievances of late nineteenth-century women
Human capital and the pre-Famine Irish emigration to England
The Impact of Unions on the Voting Behavior of Their Members
Based on a survey of members of AFL-CIO-affiliated unions in Pennsylvania, this paper investigates the influence of unions on how their members voted in the 1984 Presidential election. The authors find that unions had little effect on the number of members who voted but surprisingly strong influence on the Presidential choice of those who did vote. Union members who actively participated in their union, held union leadership positions, and report…
Unshackling the Past
Introduction During the first quarter of a century of white settlement in Australia, the economy and society was the creation of convict workers transported from Britain and Ireland. No other period of Australian history evokes such strong images in the popular mind than the convict years. Collectively, Australians perceive their past in terms of a fatal shore, the convict stain and the shame of Botany Bay: the sombre shadows of Australia's histo…
Convicts as Migrants
Introduction The convict settlers were Australia's first migrants. Surprisingly, few Australian historians have recognised that the transported convicts were not just criminals deported to a penal colony. One exception is Geoffrey Blainey whose analysis of the impact of ‘the tyranny of distance’ has done so much to focus attention on the importance to Australian economic growth of importing labour from overseas. By 1830 Australia's population, ex…
Convicts as Workers
Introduction Most historians acknowledge that many of those convicts who rose to pre-eminence in New South Wales society did so on the basis of occupational skills acquired prior to their transportation: Francis Greenway, the west country architect sentenced for ‘counterfeiting’ (concealing assets in bankruptcy) made his mark as colonial architect; William Redfern, the naval assistant surgeon recognised by Macquarie as the most skillful medical m…
Transportation as Global Migration
Introduction Analyses of immigration in the nineteenth century, at least after the end of Britain's slave trade in 1807, have been written within the context of freedom. European migration has been presented in terms of individual response to push and pull forces, and to free choice. The movement of millions from Europe to lands of recent white settlement may have been accompanied by the traumas of uprooting but the pain suffered was born of free…
A Labour Aristocracy in Chains
The identification of the convicts with the criminal class has denied the transported workers membership of the ordinary working class. Not surprisingly, few Australian historians have asked if elite workers, members of a skilled upper stratum of labour aristocrats, were transported to New South Wales. True, Lelia Thomas, in 1919, identified among the convicts a 'labour aristocracy [which] was exceedingly independent and often insolent, creating …
Irish Intercounty Mobility before 1840
End Note
Ethics and the Changing Nature of Public Service
The public sector is held to an ethical standard not demanded of others. It must recognise the distinctive nature of its contribution to the public good and meet a demanding accountability regime. Structural changes pose still further challenges for the public sector. Yet we should be proud of our accomplishments and willing to defend the unique character of public service
Commission Impossible? A New Approach To Workplace Relations in the PSMPC
This is a short story about turning commitment into action. It tells how the Public Service and Merit Protection Commission negotiated with its employees to create a certified agreement under the new Workplace Relations Act 1996. The authors conclude that a careful, consultative process has built greater trust within their organisation
Integrated leadership system in the Australian Public Service
On 16 July 2004 the Australian Public Service Commission launched a new approach to leadership capability development for the public service. This approach, the Integrated Leadership System (ILS), is described as innovative and unique by the four speakers who make up this presentation—including Andrew Podger (AO), Public Service Commissioner, Jane Halton, Secretary of Health and Ageing, Anne Simic, Head of People, Qantas, and Dr Peter Shergold, H…
Lackies, careerists, political stooges’? Personal reflections on the current state of public service leadership
Regeneration: New Structures, New Leaders, New Traditions
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