Raelene Frances
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raelene Frances |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raelene |
| FAMILY NAME | Frances |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Untold Intimacies: A History of Sex Work in Aotearoa, 1978–2008
Barbara Minchinton challenges popular accounts of Melbourne’s colonial sex workers
Barbara Minchinton challenges popular accounts of Melbourne’s colonial sex workers." History Australia, 19(2), pp. 402–403
Kenneth Stanley Inglis AO (1929–2017)
Kenneth Stanley Inglis died of pancreatic cancer on 1 December 2017. He continued to write until a few days before his death, imparting careful instructions to Jay Winter and Seamus Spark, on their
An Australian response to Michael Bérubé
This article supports Bérubé's conclusion regarding the intellectual health of humanities scholarship. However, it argues that the case of ‘contingent faculty' – or academics with short-term or casual contracts – is in many respects different in Australia to the situation he outlines for the US. Whilst a variety of funding pressures have encouraged Australian universities to employ more staff on non-continuing contracts, organised union action ha…
An affectionate tribute
Tom Stannage regularly urged his students to ‘be bold - make a difference!’ He lived by this mantra, on the football field, in his teaching, his historical writing and his community activism. In th
Labour and Anzac: An Introduction
For the Adelaide Advertiser, the workers had solved the problem of how to reconcile “the holiday spirit” with “dire national stress ... by eliminating from their demonstration any element of self.”3 The anti-labour Register, unable even on such a grand occasion to refrain from a series of cheap shots, backhandedly praised labour’s “splendid sacrifice” when it had forgotten “all about itself, all about its politics, and its industrialism, all abou…
The Sex Lives of Australians: A History
The Sex Lives of Australians: A History . By Frank Bongiorno. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2012. Pp. 416. A$32.95 paper. Let's Talk about Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the P
Authentic Leaders: Women and Leadership in Australian Unions before World War II
What literature there is on women's trade union involvement in Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasises the barriers to women's activism. This article considers case studies of women who did become activists and leaders and argues that they shared a number of commonalities, especially related to family and community and to political convictions. It also analyses the strategies they employed to overcome a range of …
Green demons: Irish-Catholics and Muslims in Australian history
The twenty-first century has seen Australia affected by terrorism in an unprecedented way, with attacks specifically targeting its citizens in Indonesia, as well as its involvement in the ‘war on terror’. At the same time, Muslims have been increasing as a proportion of the Australian population, due both to immigration and to local births. Muslim communities in Australia have faced many challenges in relating to older-established Australian soci…
Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution
Gender and the Trans-Tasman World of Labour: Transnational and Comparative Histories
With some exceptions the striking similarities of labour history in Australia and New Zealand have traditionally been examined through the lens of separate national narratives. More recently, however, we have witnessed a recovery of the 'trans-Tasman world of labour'. Such historical analysis has enabled the emergence of significant insights into the parallel development of labour market legislation, policy formation and wage fixation. This artic…
Unsatisfactory, Discriminatory, Unjust and Inviting Corruption: Feminists and the Decriminalisation of Street Prostitution in New South Wales
For four days in February 1977, Sydney's Seymour Centre hosted a most unlikely collection of people to discuss the subject of ‘Victimless Crime’ in light of Premier Wran's proposal for repeal of th
In My Skin: A Memoir
Interrogating Arbitration: Reflections on Work, Nation and History
When the various Australian jurisdictions adopted industrial arbitration at the turn of the twentieth century, they created not just a 'new province for law and order', to use Higgins' famous term. They also created a new arena in which workplace contests could be fought, a new space in which discourses could be elaborated and a stage on which power relationships could be performed. The articles in this thematic section engage with all of these d…
White Slaves' and White Australia: Prostitution and Australian Society1
Books
Domestic Service in Australia. By B.W. Higman. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 358. $49.95 cloth. Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement. By Kerreen M. Reiger. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. 335. $38.95 paper. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. By Warwick Anderson. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 352. $34.95 paper. Invisible…
Lifting the Veil: The Sex Industry, Museums and Galleries
Prostitution has played an important role in the social and labour history of Australia since the arrival of the First Fleet. However, very little of this history has made its way into the nation’s
Confessions of a Promiscuous Researcher: Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Inaugural Lecture
I am very pleased to have been invited to give this talk today. As a well brought up Catholic girl, I have the usual desire to confess, and you look like suitable recipients of this particular guilty secret hence the title of my talk: 'Confessions of a Promiscuous Researcher'. It all began back in the early 1980s when I was a postgraduate student at Monash University researching the history of work. You are probably all only too familiar with the…
Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Books
Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 15, 1940–1980, Kern‐Pie. Edited by John Ritchie and Diane Langmore. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp. xxx + 611. $75.00 cloth. The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History Edited by Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999. Pp, ix + 229. $35.00 paper. Southern Capital: Christchurch: Towards a City Biography, 1850–2000. Edited by John Cookson and Graeme Dunstall. C…
Book
Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…
Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of “Settler” Society in Australia
The history of prostitution, defined as the commercial exchange of sexual services, provides a fertile ground for the study of the intersections between gender, race and class. Obviously, the sale of sexual labour has implications for constructions of gender, although the specific implications may change with time. Commercial sex offers particularly sharp insights into the ways in which gender considerations intersect with class and race because …
Books
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Edited by Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xiii + 187. $24.95 paper. The Europeans in Australia: A History, volume 1, The Beginning. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xviii + 429. $49.95 cloth. Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship. By John Chesterman and Brian Galligan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1…
Managing Together: Consultation and Participation in the Workplace
Australian prostitution in international context∗
Using examples from the history of prostitution in Australia, this paper examines the way in which the Australian discourse on prostitution can be understood as part of a wider, international concern with 'the white slave traffic' and venereal disease. These case studies are used to introduce a broader discussion of developments in the historiography of prostitution
Unsatisfactory, Discriminatory, Unjust and Inviting Corruption: Feminists and the Decriminalisation of Street Prostitution in New South Wales
For four days in February 1977, Sydney's Seymour Centre hosted a most unlikely collection of people to discuss the subject of ‘Victimless Crime’ in light of Premier Wran's proposal for repeal of th
The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939
Managing Together: Consultation and Participation in the Workplace
No More Amazons: Gender and Work Process in the Victorian Clothing Trades, 1890-1939
In the hundred years that elapsed between the writing of Marx's Capital and the publication of Harry Braverman's book, Labor and Monopoly Capital} there was almost no debate in English-speaking Marxist circles on the labour process. Braverman's account of the history of industrial labour in the intervening period has sparked off renewed interest in the field, producing in turn numerous critiques and reinterpretations of his thesis.2 Although ther…
The Sex Lives of Australians: A History
The Sex Lives of Australians: A History . By Frank Bongiorno. Melbourne: Black Inc., 2012. Pp. 416. A$32.95 paper. Let's Talk about Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the P
Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980
A century of women's work history in Australia and Canada reveals both similarities and contrasts. Women workers in both countries have faced persistent occupational segregation and lower pay, justified by the family ideal of male breadwinner and the accompanying perception of women's paid labour as secondary, less skilled and transient. While Canada's female labour force has historically demonstrated significant proportion of immigrants from cou…
Green demons: Irish-Catholics and Muslims in Australian history
The twenty-first century has seen Australia affected by terrorism in an unprecedented way, with attacks specifically targeting its citizens in Indonesia, as well as its involvement in the ‘war on terror’. At the same time, Muslims have been increasing as a proportion of the Australian population, due both to immigration and to local births. Muslim communities in Australia have faced many challenges in relating to older-established Australian soci…
Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of “Settler” Society in Australia
The history of prostitution, defined as the commercial exchange of sexual services, provides a fertile ground for the study of the intersections between gender, race and class. Obviously, the sale of sexual labour has implications for constructions of gender, although the specific implications may change with time. Commercial sex offers particularly sharp insights into the ways in which gender considerations intersect with class and race because …
Gender and the Trans-Tasman World of Labour: Transnational and Comparative Histories
With some exceptions the striking similarities of labour history in Australia and New Zealand have traditionally been examined through the lens of separate national narratives. More recently, however, we have witnessed a recovery of the 'trans-Tasman world of labour'. Such historical analysis has enabled the emergence of significant insights into the parallel development of labour market legislation, policy formation and wage fixation. This artic…
White Slaves' and White Australia: Prostitution and Australian Society1
Is labour history dead?∗
Cause for Power: The Official History of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party. By Graham Freudenberg. Pluto Press in association with the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Sydney 1991. Pp. 297. $39 5 doth, $19 5 paper. A History of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales 1891–1991. By Jim Hagan and Ken Turner. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1991. Pp. xiii + 301. $24 9 paper. Bede Nairn and Labor History.…
What rough beast?’
No More Amazons: Gender and Work Process in the Victorian Clothing Trades, 1890-1939
In the hundred years that elapsed between the writing of Marx's Capital and the publication of Harry Braverman's book, Labor and Monopoly Capital} there was almost no debate in English-speaking Marxist circles on the labour process. Braverman's account of the history of industrial labour in the intervening period has sparked off renewed interest in the field, producing in turn numerous critiques and reinterpretations of his thesis.2 Although ther…
Foundations of Arbitration: The Origins and Effects of State Compulsory Arbitration 1890-1914
Origins: Pre-arbitral labour legislation in Australia Voluntarism of compulsion? State systems of conciliation and arbitration The compulsory arbitration model of industrial dispute settlement Agency: Forced march Trade unions, the labour party and the introduction of arbitration in New South Wales and the commonwealth Neither capital nor labour Effects: The economy, wages and the establishment of arbitration Compulsory arbitration Master builder…
Marginal Matters: Gender, Skill, Unions and the Commonwealth Arbitration Court: A Case Study of the Australian Printing Industry, 1925-1937
For over a decade, feminist scholars both in Australia and overseas have devoted considerable attention to the problem of how to account for the sexual division of labour under capitalism. There is general agreement that at least part of the explanation for women's concentration in poorly paid, low status work lies in the activities of male unionists who fought successfully to exclude cheaper female labour from the better paid male crafts. Whethe…
Is labour history dead?∗
Cause for Power: The Official History of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party. By Graham Freudenberg. Pluto Press in association with the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Sydney 1991. Pp. 297. $39 5 doth, $19 5 paper. A History of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales 1891–1991. By Jim Hagan and Ken Turner. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1991. Pp. xiii + 301. $24 9 paper. Bede Nairn and Labor History.…
The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939
Labour History: "A Journal of Labour and Social History, numero special, "Women, Work and the Labour Movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand
"Three Views on "Creating a Nation
View One Reviewing this book has not been easy, let me tell you. Only the most persistent review editor in recent memory has led to this review being finished at all. Having already discussed Creating A Nation in a mere 800 words for The Age, and finding it difficult to talk about the work of people I know extremely well, I had hoped my earlier commitment to Labour History would be set aside. It was not to be. Still, looking at the book again, af…
That Dangerous and Persuasive Women: Vida Goldstein
The Politics of Work; Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939
Australian prostitution in international context∗
Using examples from the history of prostitution in Australia, this paper examines the way in which the Australian discourse on prostitution can be understood as part of a wider, international concern with 'the white slave traffic' and venereal disease. These case studies are used to introduce a broader discussion of developments in the historiography of prostitution
Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980
A century of women's work history in Australia and Canada reveals both similarities and contrasts. Women workers in both countries have faced persistent occupational segregation and lower pay, justified by the family ideal of male breadwinner and the accompanying perception of women's paid labour as secondary, less skilled and transient. While Canada's female labour force has historically demonstrated significant proportion of immigrants from cou…
Books
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Edited by Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xiii + 187. $24.95 paper. The Europeans in Australia: A History, volume 1, The Beginning. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xviii + 429. $49.95 cloth. Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship. By John Chesterman and Brian Galligan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1…
Managing Together: Consultation and Participation in the Workplace
Book
Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…
Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of “Settler” Society in Australia
The history of prostitution, defined as the commercial exchange of sexual services, provides a fertile ground for the study of the intersections between gender, race and class. Obviously, the sale of sexual labour has implications for constructions of gender, although the specific implications may change with time. Commercial sex offers particularly sharp insights into the ways in which gender considerations intersect with class and race because …
Books
Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 15, 1940–1980, Kern‐Pie. Edited by John Ritchie and Diane Langmore. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp. xxx + 611. $75.00 cloth. The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History Edited by Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999. Pp, ix + 229. $35.00 paper. Southern Capital: Christchurch: Towards a City Biography, 1850–2000. Edited by John Cookson and Graeme Dunstall. C…
Confessions of a Promiscuous Researcher: Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Inaugural Lecture
I am very pleased to have been invited to give this talk today. As a well brought up Catholic girl, I have the usual desire to confess, and you look like suitable recipients of this particular guilty secret hence the title of my talk: 'Confessions of a Promiscuous Researcher'. It all began back in the early 1980s when I was a postgraduate student at Monash University researching the history of work. You are probably all only too familiar with the…
Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Books
Domestic Service in Australia. By B.W. Higman. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 358. $49.95 cloth. Our Bodies, Our Babies: The Forgotten Women's Movement. By Kerreen M. Reiger. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. 335. $38.95 paper. The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. By Warwick Anderson. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 352. $34.95 paper. Invisible…
Lifting the Veil: The Sex Industry, Museums and Galleries
Prostitution has played an important role in the social and labour history of Australia since the arrival of the First Fleet. However, very little of this history has made its way into the nation’s
White Slaves' and White Australia: Prostitution and Australian Society1
Unsatisfactory, Discriminatory, Unjust and Inviting Corruption: Feminists and the Decriminalisation of Street Prostitution in New South Wales
For four days in February 1977, Sydney's Seymour Centre hosted a most unlikely collection of people to discuss the subject of ‘Victimless Crime’ in light of Premier Wran's proposal for repeal of th
In My Skin: A Memoir
Interrogating Arbitration: Reflections on Work, Nation and History
When the various Australian jurisdictions adopted industrial arbitration at the turn of the twentieth century, they created not just a 'new province for law and order', to use Higgins' famous term. They also created a new arena in which workplace contests could be fought, a new space in which discourses could be elaborated and a stage on which power relationships could be performed. The articles in this thematic section engage with all of these d…
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