Kathie Muir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathie Muir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathie |
| FAMILY NAME | Muir |
| SIGNATURE | MUIR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thugs and Bullies
Traditional militant displays of proud working-class masculinity are no longer an advantage in union (or Labor Party) campaigns to win public support. This paper examines the contested masculinities within the construction industry, and specifically those deployed within the campaign by construction unions to achieve workers' rights on site, together with the strategic limitations for their campaigning options. The question of how unions in this …
Your Rights at Work’ campaign
The Australian labor movement faced an unprecedented challenge to trade union and workers’ rights when the conservative coalition government introduced the Work Choices legislation in 2005. The unions’ Your Rights at Work campaign became the most significant political campaign mounted by a non-party political group in Australian history for its blend of television advertising, mobilizing and grassroots organizing, web-based campaigning and televi…
Not Dead Yet
Australian unions launched the 'Your Rights at Work' campaign to combat the hostile 'Work Choices' legislation, introduced in an already difficult environment in which union influence had waned significantly. The campaign was central to the defeat of the Howard government. It was unmatched in Australian political and industrial history owing to: its scale and duration; its diversity of activities and technologies; its degree of community support;…
Political cares
Feminism and Representations of Union Identity in Australian Union Banners of the 1980s and Early 1990s
Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women
(1996). Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 20, No. 48, pp. 73-82
Your Rights at Work’ campaign
The Australian labor movement faced an unprecedented challenge to trade union and workers’ rights when the conservative coalition government introduced the Work Choices legislation in 2005. The unions’ Your Rights at Work campaign became the most significant political campaign mounted by a non-party political group in Australian history for its blend of television advertising, mobilizing and grassroots organizing, web-based campaigning and televi…
Political cares
Not Dead Yet
Australian unions launched the 'Your Rights at Work' campaign to combat the hostile 'Work Choices' legislation, introduced in an already difficult environment in which union influence had waned significantly. The campaign was central to the defeat of the Howard government. It was unmatched in Australian political and industrial history owing to: its scale and duration; its diversity of activities and technologies; its degree of community support;…
Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women
(1996). Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 20, No. 48, pp. 73-82
Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women
(1996). Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 20, No. 48, pp. 73-82
Feminism and Representations of Union Identity in Australian Union Banners of the 1980s and Early 1990s
Political cares
Your Rights at Work’ campaign
The Australian labor movement faced an unprecedented challenge to trade union and workers’ rights when the conservative coalition government introduced the Work Choices legislation in 2005. The unions’ Your Rights at Work campaign became the most significant political campaign mounted by a non-party political group in Australian history for its blend of television advertising, mobilizing and grassroots organizing, web-based campaigning and televi…
Not Dead Yet
Australian unions launched the 'Your Rights at Work' campaign to combat the hostile 'Work Choices' legislation, introduced in an already difficult environment in which union influence had waned significantly. The campaign was central to the defeat of the Howard government. It was unmatched in Australian political and industrial history owing to: its scale and duration; its diversity of activities and technologies; its degree of community support;…
Thugs and Bullies
Traditional militant displays of proud working-class masculinity are no longer an advantage in union (or Labor Party) campaigns to win public support. This paper examines the contested masculinities within the construction industry, and specifically those deployed within the campaign by construction unions to achieve workers' rights on site, together with the strategic limitations for their campaigning options. The question of how unions in this …
Sociology (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works)