Peter Sheldon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Sheldon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheldon |
| SIGNATURE | SHELDON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6981-2141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2020
The emphasis of employers and employer associations, when 2020 began, was largely business as usual. With the pandemic’s advent, employers and associations reoriented some industrial relations activity, which encouraged cooperation while also highlighting sharp divisions. As the year progressed, however, it became increasingly apparent that the federal government’s responses to the pandemic provided unanticipated opportunities for the employer mo…
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2019
The May federal election appeared particularly important to employers’ views of their industrial relations’ interests. Employers and their associations had long steeled themselves against an unwelcome Labor victory, fearing Labor’s promises of substantial changes to industrial relations’ structures, processes and outcomes as well as taxation. Associations appeared busier than ever, representing employers through politics-related public relations,…
Making Singapore's tripartism work (faster)
We locate the 1980 formation of the Singapore National Employers' Federation (SNEF) within a history of Singaporean tripartism. This redresses a general neglect of employer associations in that system and suggests re-conceptualising Singaporean tripartism into three overlapping phases between 1960 and 1985. The motivations for the first two are well understood. Once in government, the People's Action Party (PAP) suppressed political and union opp…
The State, Labour and the Writing of Australian Labour History
A critical literature review of the influence of the twentieth century state in Australia on labour produces a number of findings. First, the disaggregated nature of that state - with its national, state and local levels each including various state ‘arms’ - has generated a multiplicity of outcomes and a diverse literature. Second, the field largely operates within a range of perspectives - pluralist, elite and class-based - that accepts and legi…
Jim Hagan and Apprentice Historians
The key things that were learnt from Jim Hagan by apprentice historians about being a historian are discussed. Details of what all was done by the apprentice historians along with Jim Hagan is highlighted
Strategic Choices and Unintended Consequences
Concepts of strategic choice have become widely used in industrial relations, particularly as methods of understanding recent historical changes. While the operation of strategy-choosing relative to implementation has generated debate, there has been little discussion of how strategic choices can generate unintended consequences even where there are no apparent weaknesses in implementation. We discuss these issues in the context of under-explored…
State‐level Basic Wages in Australia During the Depression, 1929–35
State wage‐fixation tribunals developed quite particular patterns of basic wage fixation during the Depression. They declined to follow the Commonwealth Court's 10 per cent wage cut, thereby confining its effect to about half the workforce and creating distinctly different State and Commonwealth basic wage patterns in each capital city. Further, tribunals' uneven patterns of basic wage adjustment to deflation meant that in some states, the real S…
The Dirtiest of Jobs
Public health crises followed as provision of water supply and sewage disposal failed to keep pace with Sydney's rapid, mid-nineteenth century growth. Construction of necessary infrastructure and the creation of the Water Board, in 1888, to administer it proved to be the solution. This article describes those who laboured to maintain Sydney's sewers and thereby helped guarantee the public health of that metropolis. It is a story of grindingly hea…
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change
AbbreviationsContributorsPreface1 Introduction - Peter Sheldon & Lousie Thornthwaite2 The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite3 The Business Council of Australia - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite4 The Metal Trades Industry Association - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite5 Employer associations in road transport - Bradley Bowden6 Employer associations in coal mining - Michael Barry7 The Natio…
In Case of Oppression
The missing nexus? Union recovery, growth and behaviour during the first decades of arbitration
Public vs private employers on New South Wales public works, 1890–1910
System and Strategy
The Foundations of Labor
Union control’ against management power
The Dimming of Illusions
Direct employment on public works (or day labour) was a powerful symbol of the possibilities for reform within capitalism in the early years of this century. It promised not only more work at times of high unemployment, but better conditions of employment. Further, there was the possibility of labourers, through their unions, having much greater control of their working lives. The major political battles were over whether governments should use d…
In Division is Strength
This paper addresses two areas which Australian labour historians have neglected. First, they have shown little interest in unionism among labourers working on building and construction. There has also been a general neglect of the patterns of union development in the 20 years after 1890. Historians have been content, on the whole, to concentrate on the establishment and growth of labor parties and state industrial regulation after the major stri…
Job Control for Workers' Health
Of course, rebellion is a crime, and a very serious one, but it seems to me . . . looking at the deliberate, and ostentatious, and defiant character of it, to be more like an act of rebellion, a resolution on the part of the body that they will defy and set at naught the law . . . The union was put above the State ... I will not say criminal, because it is a nasty word, but is not that the attitude of rebels??Judge Heydon.1 The Rockchoppers have …
Some Books on Greece
Some Books on Greece
Some Books on Greece
Some Books on Greece
Job Control for Workers' Health
Of course, rebellion is a crime, and a very serious one, but it seems to me . . . looking at the deliberate, and ostentatious, and defiant character of it, to be more like an act of rebellion, a resolution on the part of the body that they will defy and set at naught the law . . . The union was put above the State ... I will not say criminal, because it is a nasty word, but is not that the attitude of rebels??Judge Heydon.1 The Rockchoppers have …
Union control’ against management power
The Dimming of Illusions
Direct employment on public works (or day labour) was a powerful symbol of the possibilities for reform within capitalism in the early years of this century. It promised not only more work at times of high unemployment, but better conditions of employment. Further, there was the possibility of labourers, through their unions, having much greater control of their working lives. The major political battles were over whether governments should use d…
In Division is Strength
This paper addresses two areas which Australian labour historians have neglected. First, they have shown little interest in unionism among labourers working on building and construction. There has also been a general neglect of the patterns of union development in the 20 years after 1890. Historians have been content, on the whole, to concentrate on the establishment and growth of labor parties and state industrial regulation after the major stri…
The Foundations of Labor
Public vs private employers on New South Wales public works, 1890–1910
System and Strategy
The missing nexus? Union recovery, growth and behaviour during the first decades of arbitration
In Case of Oppression
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change
AbbreviationsContributorsPreface1 Introduction - Peter Sheldon & Lousie Thornthwaite2 The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite3 The Business Council of Australia - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite4 The Metal Trades Industry Association - Peter Sheldon and Louise Thornthwaite5 Employer associations in road transport - Bradley Bowden6 Employer associations in coal mining - Michael Barry7 The Natio…
State‐level Basic Wages in Australia During the Depression, 1929–35
State wage‐fixation tribunals developed quite particular patterns of basic wage fixation during the Depression. They declined to follow the Commonwealth Court's 10 per cent wage cut, thereby confining its effect to about half the workforce and creating distinctly different State and Commonwealth basic wage patterns in each capital city. Further, tribunals' uneven patterns of basic wage adjustment to deflation meant that in some states, the real S…
The Dirtiest of Jobs
Public health crises followed as provision of water supply and sewage disposal failed to keep pace with Sydney's rapid, mid-nineteenth century growth. Construction of necessary infrastructure and the creation of the Water Board, in 1888, to administer it proved to be the solution. This article describes those who laboured to maintain Sydney's sewers and thereby helped guarantee the public health of that metropolis. It is a story of grindingly hea…
Strategic Choices and Unintended Consequences
Concepts of strategic choice have become widely used in industrial relations, particularly as methods of understanding recent historical changes. While the operation of strategy-choosing relative to implementation has generated debate, there has been little discussion of how strategic choices can generate unintended consequences even where there are no apparent weaknesses in implementation. We discuss these issues in the context of under-explored…
Jim Hagan and Apprentice Historians
The key things that were learnt from Jim Hagan by apprentice historians about being a historian are discussed. Details of what all was done by the apprentice historians along with Jim Hagan is highlighted
The State, Labour and the Writing of Australian Labour History
A critical literature review of the influence of the twentieth century state in Australia on labour produces a number of findings. First, the disaggregated nature of that state - with its national, state and local levels each including various state ‘arms’ - has generated a multiplicity of outcomes and a diverse literature. Second, the field largely operates within a range of perspectives - pluralist, elite and class-based - that accepts and legi…
Making Singapore's tripartism work (faster)
We locate the 1980 formation of the Singapore National Employers' Federation (SNEF) within a history of Singaporean tripartism. This redresses a general neglect of employer associations in that system and suggests re-conceptualising Singaporean tripartism into three overlapping phases between 1960 and 1985. The motivations for the first two are well understood. Once in government, the People's Action Party (PAP) suppressed political and union opp…
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2019
The May federal election appeared particularly important to employers’ views of their industrial relations’ interests. Employers and their associations had long steeled themselves against an unwelcome Labor victory, fearing Labor’s promises of substantial changes to industrial relations’ structures, processes and outcomes as well as taxation. Associations appeared busier than ever, representing employers through politics-related public relations,…
Employer and employer association matters in Australia in 2020
The emphasis of employers and employer associations, when 2020 began, was largely business as usual. With the pandemic’s advent, employers and associations reoriented some industrial relations activity, which encouraged cooperation while also highlighting sharp divisions. As the year progressed, however, it became increasingly apparent that the federal government’s responses to the pandemic provided unanticipated opportunities for the employer mo…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Australian History and Society (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Management (7 works)