Phil Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Research Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Coolie Labour Crisis in Colonial Queensland
The conflict over 'coolie labour' was of great importance in colonial Australia. Like the debates and conflicts over Chinese immigration and Pacific Islander labour, the outcome helped shape dominant national strategies around labour, immigration and nationalism, summed up in the idea of a White Australia. Unlike the issue of Chinese immigration, it drove major capitalist interests into a prolonged and bitter conflict with each other. Sugar plant…
The "Necessity" of a Socially Homogeneous Population
In 1888, the colonial governments of Australia came together to agree on a policy of racial exclusion — aimed at preventing Chinese immigration. This article argues that key figures in the colonial ruling class feared the development of a racially divided population and shows them drawing on the mainstream liberal theory of anti-slavery, and John Stuart Mill’s theory that representative government required social homogeneity, to construct and leg…
This is a British Colony
The seafarers' strike of 1878–79 has occupied a special place in the history of White Australia, symbolising the idea that militant working class action led to the racial exclusion of Chinese and other non-white people. This article demonstrates that the strike was, remarkably, supported by a significant proportion of the colonial ruling class, including the conservative politicians and newspapers of Queensland, primarily because they were concer…
The Strategic Fears of the Ruling Class
In early 1877, there were no immigration restrictions in any of the Australian colonies. Queensland's Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877 was the first of many laws that restricted Chinese immigration, in a movement that ultimately led to the White Australia legislation of 1901–2. This article finds that, contrary to the hegemonic understanding of White Australia, there was no significant working class or popular pressure behind the passage…
Containing Discontent
Angus Cameron is usually remembered as one of the pioneers of labour representation, a carpenter elected to the New South Wales parliament in 1874 who became a leading advocate for legislation to stop Chinese immigration. Historians have seen this link as evidence that racism was pushed from below by the working class. This article shows that Cameron turned to anti-Chinese agitation at the very point he broke with the labour movement, and argues …
Big White Lie
Preface Introduction 1 Belonging and exclusion 2 Mateship and modernity 3 Immigrant labour and goldfield fraternities 4 Revolution, respectability and Chinese Masonry 5 Chinese Australia at federation 6 The Australasian Kuo Min Tang 7 The Pacific shadow of White Australia 8 Entrepreneurs, clubs and Christian values 9 Being Australian Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Power, Profit and Protest
Social movements and social change..2. The Aboriginal movement..3. The women's movement..4. The green movement..5. Anti-capitalism and anti-corporate globalisation..6. Globalisation: the cancer stage of capitalism?..Notes..References..Index
Containing Discontent
Angus Cameron is usually remembered as one of the pioneers of labour representation, a carpenter elected to the New South Wales parliament in 1874 who became a leading advocate for legislation to stop Chinese immigration. Historians have seen this link as evidence that racism was pushed from below by the working class. This article shows that Cameron turned to anti-Chinese agitation at the very point he broke with the labour movement, and argues …
Power, Profit and Protest
Social movements and social change..2. The Aboriginal movement..3. The women's movement..4. The green movement..5. Anti-capitalism and anti-corporate globalisation..6. Globalisation: the cancer stage of capitalism?..Notes..References..Index
Containing Discontent
Angus Cameron is usually remembered as one of the pioneers of labour representation, a carpenter elected to the New South Wales parliament in 1874 who became a leading advocate for legislation to stop Chinese immigration. Historians have seen this link as evidence that racism was pushed from below by the working class. This article shows that Cameron turned to anti-Chinese agitation at the very point he broke with the labour movement, and argues …
Big White Lie
Preface Introduction 1 Belonging and exclusion 2 Mateship and modernity 3 Immigrant labour and goldfield fraternities 4 Revolution, respectability and Chinese Masonry 5 Chinese Australia at federation 6 The Australasian Kuo Min Tang 7 The Pacific shadow of White Australia 8 Entrepreneurs, clubs and Christian values 9 Being Australian Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
The Strategic Fears of the Ruling Class
In early 1877, there were no immigration restrictions in any of the Australian colonies. Queensland's Chinese Immigrants Regulation Act of 1877 was the first of many laws that restricted Chinese immigration, in a movement that ultimately led to the White Australia legislation of 1901–2. This article finds that, contrary to the hegemonic understanding of White Australia, there was no significant working class or popular pressure behind the passage…
This is a British Colony
The seafarers' strike of 1878–79 has occupied a special place in the history of White Australia, symbolising the idea that militant working class action led to the racial exclusion of Chinese and other non-white people. This article demonstrates that the strike was, remarkably, supported by a significant proportion of the colonial ruling class, including the conservative politicians and newspapers of Queensland, primarily because they were concer…
The "Necessity" of a Socially Homogeneous Population
In 1888, the colonial governments of Australia came together to agree on a policy of racial exclusion — aimed at preventing Chinese immigration. This article argues that key figures in the colonial ruling class feared the development of a racially divided population and shows them drawing on the mainstream liberal theory of anti-slavery, and John Stuart Mill’s theory that representative government required social homogeneity, to construct and leg…
The Coolie Labour Crisis in Colonial Queensland
The conflict over 'coolie labour' was of great importance in colonial Australia. Like the debates and conflicts over Chinese immigration and Pacific Islander labour, the outcome helped shape dominant national strategies around labour, immigration and nationalism, summed up in the idea of a White Australia. Unlike the issue of Chinese immigration, it drove major capitalist interests into a prolonged and bitter conflict with each other. Sugar plant…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · Project commissioning (5 works) · Publishing (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Immigration (3 works)