Bradley Bowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley Bowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowden |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5459-9915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slavery and Its Legacies
Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor: The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life
Australian Union Transformation and the Challenge for Labour Historians
The purpose of this article is two-fold. First, it confronts misconceptions that explain union decline in Australia; misconceptions that are entrenched in labour history and industrial relations scholarship. We are told that decline "commenced in the early 1980s," when in fact it began in 1948; that union decline primarily results from attacks by conservative governments "bent on their destruction," when the rate of decline has often been steepes…
Empiricism, epistemology and modern postmodernism: A critique
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it seeks to trace the origins of the various strands of postmodernism within German philosophic idealism; traditions of thought which placed emphasis – like postmodernism – on a subjective understanding of evidence and a supposed capacity of human consciousness to continually move beyond the bounds imposed by social convention and being; second, this paper states that postmodernism, rooted as i…
The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come
This is a serious book by a serious scholar, telling a story that is central to the Australian experience with a fluent ease of literary style. The focus of Ellem's story – the Pilbara iron mines, their workers and the unions that have represented them – is one of which most of us are at least dimly aware. When visiting any capital city airport it is hard not to notice the army of Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) workers heading to or from the Pilbara. Yet…
Possibilities and limits of brand repositioning for a second-ranked city: The case of Brisbane, Australia's “New World City”, 1979–2013
Denis Murphy, the University of Queensland and Labour History, 1966-83: A Reassessment
This paper explores the flowering of labour history at the University of Queensland between\n1966 and 1983; a blossoming that not only laid foundations for the discipline in Queensland\nbut which also provided an interpretation at odds with the then dominant “Old Left”\nhistoriography. It is argued that, in addition to Denis Murphy’s efforts, there were four\ncomplex and unstable factors behind this flowering: initial support from Queensland Labo…
Perverse Transformation: Railway Development and the Shaping of Queensland Society, 1880-1901
The railways played a central role in the development of New World societies. In the United States, Shelton Stromquist found that in the American Mid-West and West, two sorts of communities were formed. The first were “merchant towns” under the domination of commercial interests and hostile to organised labour. The other were “railway towns.” These towns, within which railway workers were numerically significant, were supportive of labour militan…
Modern Labor in Queensland: Its Rise and Failings, 1978-98
This article explores the emergence of "modern Labor" in Queensland. Previously under Trades Hall control, Queensland Labor was transformed in 1980 when the Reform Group gained control after intervention by Labor's Federal Executive. Between 1989 and 2012 it was only out of office once (1996-98). Labor's restructure, however, brought neither rank-and-file involvement nor a substantial membership. Authority was vested in factional powerbrokers. Wh…
A History of the Pan‐pacific Coal Trade From the 1950s to 2011: Exploring the Long‐term Effects of a Buying Cartel
Since the early 1960s, the Pan‐Pacific coal trade has underpinned East Asia's industrial development. While the genesis of this trade lay in investment decisions by United States‐based companies that pioneered exports from Australian and western Canadian mines, its development was largely shaped by the strategies of the Japanese steel mills who acted as a buying cartel. By the early 1980s, this cartel had engineered an oversupplied market charact…
From Defeat to Catastrophe: The Labor Party in Rural New South Wales, 1988-2011
While Labor’s defeat in the 2011 New South Wales (NSW) election has received much comment an overlooked outcome is the ‘ghettoisation’ of its vote. Labor did not capture a single rural booth outside of the seat of Monaro. This article argues that this outcome stemmed not from recent organisational and policy failings but rather from trends now decades old. After 1988 few country people voted Labor. For almost 20 years, however, Labor’s plight was…
The Rise and Decline of Australian Unionism: A History of Industrial Labour from the 1820s to 2010
In exploring the factors that contributed to the rise and decline of industrial labour in Australia, this article argues that support for unionism initially emerged from a working class that was a product of the country's unusual economic history. In the twentieth century the implementation of systems of compulsory arbitration, devised to mediate industrial conflict, reinforced support for unionism. In 1948, however, support for unionism peaked a…
An Economy Ill‐suited to Younger Workers: Child and Youth Workforce Participation in Colonial Queensland, 1886–1901
This article explores the extent and significance of child and youth work in late 19th century Australia. It demonstrates that, while demographic changes meant that almost half the population was aged 19 years or less, this age cohort never comprised more than 18 per cent of the recorded workforce. It is argued that this under‐representation reflects the fact that children and youths were ill‐suited to the work demands of most colonial occupation…
Dust, contractors, politics and silicosis: Conflicting narratives and the Queensland Royal commission into miners’ phthisis, 1911
In 1909-10 the Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party was engaged in rebuilding its strength from the opposition benches after a damaging split with its former leader, William Kidston, who continued as Premier in alliance with more conservative politicians. Reflecting the concerns of hard-rock miners, it campaigned to ameliorate the occupational disease silicosis (miners' phthisis). In December 1910 a Royal Commission was appointed to enquire into …
The Women Do the Machinery: Craft, Gender and Work Transformation in the Brisbane Boot Trade, 1869-95
During the period 1869-95 the Brisbane boot trade not only provided work for an increasing number of the city's residents, it also gave rise to two of Queensland's more significant trade unions. Of these, one, the Amalgamated Operative Boot Trade Union, gave voice to male craftsmen seeking to defend their status as independent handicraft producers. The other, the Female Boot-Machinists Union, proved to be the largest and most enduring female indu…
A Time 'The Like of which was never before Experienced: Changing Community Loyalties in Ipswich, 1900-12
During the nineteenth century, Ipswich was Queensland's premier industrial centre outside the colony's capital, its prosperity resting on the district's coal mines and railway workshops. Yet, despite Ipswich being an overwhelming working class town, organised labour remained a marginal force. Instead, Ipswich's workers and their families placed local loyalties ahead of industrial allegiances. The strength of these local ties reflected the importa…
Transience, Community and Class: A Study of Brisbane's East Ward, 1879-91
After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry
'The Greatest Curse… Was Unrestrained Competition': Regulating Competition in the Queensland Coal Industry, 1900 to the 1930s
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, No.1
Some Mysterious Terror: The Relationship between Capital and Labour in Ipswich, 1861-96
Throughout the late nineteenth century, Ipswich was Queensland's leading provincial industrial centre, with the town and its surrounding district containing the colony's main railway workshops and the vast bulk of its coal mines. Reflecting this industrial base, organised labour in Ipswich secured some notable achievements. Trade unionism established a presence in the railway workshops as early as 1865, while the coal mining electorate of Bundamb…
Celebration of a Rebel Parliamentarian: The Fred Paterson Conference
Driving Force: The History of the Transport Workers Union of Australia, 1883-1992
Industry and workers 1788-1890 pioneer road transport unions 1883-1898 towards a Federal Drivers' Union 1900-1914 arbitration and stagnation 1914-1939 into the whirlwind 1939-1956 a period of transition 1956-1966 an industrial pace-setter 1966-1975 the TWU at its peak 1975-1983 transport workers in accord 1983-1992
The Rise and Decline of Australian Unionism: A History of Industrial Labour from the 1820s to 2010
In exploring the factors that contributed to the rise and decline of industrial labour in Australia, this article argues that support for unionism initially emerged from a working class that was a product of the country's unusual economic history. In the twentieth century the implementation of systems of compulsory arbitration, devised to mediate industrial conflict, reinforced support for unionism. In 1948, however, support for unionism peaked a…
Possibilities and limits of brand repositioning for a second-ranked city: The case of Brisbane, Australia's “New World City”, 1979–2013
Dust, contractors, politics and silicosis: Conflicting narratives and the Queensland Royal commission into miners’ phthisis, 1911
In 1909-10 the Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party was engaged in rebuilding its strength from the opposition benches after a damaging split with its former leader, William Kidston, who continued as Premier in alliance with more conservative politicians. Reflecting the concerns of hard-rock miners, it campaigned to ameliorate the occupational disease silicosis (miners' phthisis). In December 1910 a Royal Commission was appointed to enquire into …
Perverse Transformation: Railway Development and the Shaping of Queensland Society, 1880-1901
The railways played a central role in the development of New World societies. In the United States, Shelton Stromquist found that in the American Mid-West and West, two sorts of communities were formed. The first were “merchant towns” under the domination of commercial interests and hostile to organised labour. The other were “railway towns.” These towns, within which railway workers were numerically significant, were supportive of labour militan…
Driving Force: The History of the Transport Workers Union of Australia, 1883-1992
Industry and workers 1788-1890 pioneer road transport unions 1883-1898 towards a Federal Drivers' Union 1900-1914 arbitration and stagnation 1914-1939 into the whirlwind 1939-1956 a period of transition 1956-1966 an industrial pace-setter 1966-1975 the TWU at its peak 1975-1983 transport workers in accord 1983-1992
Celebration of a Rebel Parliamentarian: The Fred Paterson Conference
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, No.1
Some Mysterious Terror: The Relationship between Capital and Labour in Ipswich, 1861-96
Throughout the late nineteenth century, Ipswich was Queensland's leading provincial industrial centre, with the town and its surrounding district containing the colony's main railway workshops and the vast bulk of its coal mines. Reflecting this industrial base, organised labour in Ipswich secured some notable achievements. Trade unionism established a presence in the railway workshops as early as 1865, while the coal mining electorate of Bundamb…
'The Greatest Curse… Was Unrestrained Competition': Regulating Competition in the Queensland Coal Industry, 1900 to the 1930s
Transience, Community and Class: A Study of Brisbane's East Ward, 1879-91
After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry
A Time 'The Like of which was never before Experienced: Changing Community Loyalties in Ipswich, 1900-12
During the nineteenth century, Ipswich was Queensland's premier industrial centre outside the colony's capital, its prosperity resting on the district's coal mines and railway workshops. Yet, despite Ipswich being an overwhelming working class town, organised labour remained a marginal force. Instead, Ipswich's workers and their families placed local loyalties ahead of industrial allegiances. The strength of these local ties reflected the importa…
The Women Do the Machinery: Craft, Gender and Work Transformation in the Brisbane Boot Trade, 1869-95
During the period 1869-95 the Brisbane boot trade not only provided work for an increasing number of the city's residents, it also gave rise to two of Queensland's more significant trade unions. Of these, one, the Amalgamated Operative Boot Trade Union, gave voice to male craftsmen seeking to defend their status as independent handicraft producers. The other, the Female Boot-Machinists Union, proved to be the largest and most enduring female indu…
An Economy Ill‐suited to Younger Workers: Child and Youth Workforce Participation in Colonial Queensland, 1886–1901
This article explores the extent and significance of child and youth work in late 19th century Australia. It demonstrates that, while demographic changes meant that almost half the population was aged 19 years or less, this age cohort never comprised more than 18 per cent of the recorded workforce. It is argued that this under‐representation reflects the fact that children and youths were ill‐suited to the work demands of most colonial occupation…
Dust, contractors, politics and silicosis: Conflicting narratives and the Queensland Royal commission into miners’ phthisis, 1911
In 1909-10 the Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party was engaged in rebuilding its strength from the opposition benches after a damaging split with its former leader, William Kidston, who continued as Premier in alliance with more conservative politicians. Reflecting the concerns of hard-rock miners, it campaigned to ameliorate the occupational disease silicosis (miners' phthisis). In December 1910 a Royal Commission was appointed to enquire into …
The Rise and Decline of Australian Unionism: A History of Industrial Labour from the 1820s to 2010
In exploring the factors that contributed to the rise and decline of industrial labour in Australia, this article argues that support for unionism initially emerged from a working class that was a product of the country's unusual economic history. In the twentieth century the implementation of systems of compulsory arbitration, devised to mediate industrial conflict, reinforced support for unionism. In 1948, however, support for unionism peaked a…
A History of the Pan‐pacific Coal Trade From the 1950s to 2011: Exploring the Long‐term Effects of a Buying Cartel
Since the early 1960s, the Pan‐Pacific coal trade has underpinned East Asia's industrial development. While the genesis of this trade lay in investment decisions by United States‐based companies that pioneered exports from Australian and western Canadian mines, its development was largely shaped by the strategies of the Japanese steel mills who acted as a buying cartel. By the early 1980s, this cartel had engineered an oversupplied market charact…
From Defeat to Catastrophe: The Labor Party in Rural New South Wales, 1988-2011
While Labor’s defeat in the 2011 New South Wales (NSW) election has received much comment an overlooked outcome is the ‘ghettoisation’ of its vote. Labor did not capture a single rural booth outside of the seat of Monaro. This article argues that this outcome stemmed not from recent organisational and policy failings but rather from trends now decades old. After 1988 few country people voted Labor. For almost 20 years, however, Labor’s plight was…
Modern Labor in Queensland: Its Rise and Failings, 1978-98
This article explores the emergence of "modern Labor" in Queensland. Previously under Trades Hall control, Queensland Labor was transformed in 1980 when the Reform Group gained control after intervention by Labor's Federal Executive. Between 1989 and 2012 it was only out of office once (1996-98). Labor's restructure, however, brought neither rank-and-file involvement nor a substantial membership. Authority was vested in factional powerbrokers. Wh…
Perverse Transformation: Railway Development and the Shaping of Queensland Society, 1880-1901
The railways played a central role in the development of New World societies. In the United States, Shelton Stromquist found that in the American Mid-West and West, two sorts of communities were formed. The first were “merchant towns” under the domination of commercial interests and hostile to organised labour. The other were “railway towns.” These towns, within which railway workers were numerically significant, were supportive of labour militan…
Possibilities and limits of brand repositioning for a second-ranked city: The case of Brisbane, Australia's “New World City”, 1979–2013
Denis Murphy, the University of Queensland and Labour History, 1966-83: A Reassessment
This paper explores the flowering of labour history at the University of Queensland between\n1966 and 1983; a blossoming that not only laid foundations for the discipline in Queensland\nbut which also provided an interpretation at odds with the then dominant “Old Left”\nhistoriography. It is argued that, in addition to Denis Murphy’s efforts, there were four\ncomplex and unstable factors behind this flowering: initial support from Queensland Labo…
Empiricism, epistemology and modern postmodernism: A critique
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it seeks to trace the origins of the various strands of postmodernism within German philosophic idealism; traditions of thought which placed emphasis – like postmodernism – on a subjective understanding of evidence and a supposed capacity of human consciousness to continually move beyond the bounds imposed by social convention and being; second, this paper states that postmodernism, rooted as i…
The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come
This is a serious book by a serious scholar, telling a story that is central to the Australian experience with a fluent ease of literary style. The focus of Ellem's story – the Pilbara iron mines, their workers and the unions that have represented them – is one of which most of us are at least dimly aware. When visiting any capital city airport it is hard not to notice the army of Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) workers heading to or from the Pilbara. Yet…
Australian Union Transformation and the Challenge for Labour Historians
The purpose of this article is two-fold. First, it confronts misconceptions that explain union decline in Australia; misconceptions that are entrenched in labour history and industrial relations scholarship. We are told that decline "commenced in the early 1980s," when in fact it began in 1948; that union decline primarily results from attacks by conservative governments "bent on their destruction," when the rate of decline has often been steepes…
Slavery and Its Legacies
Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor: The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life
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