Matt Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0625-3821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Retailing in Australia’s “Steel City”
Synthesizing demographic data, retail census data, and archival sources, this study demonstrates how retail reflects shifting phases of capitalism as it responds to demographic, cultural, labor market, industry, and macro-economic forces. It examines the relationship between industrialization, deindustrialization, and retailing in Newcastle, New South Wales, an Australian “Steel City.” Early retailing and consumption in Newcastle were inextricabl…
Managing time, spending time
Introduction
Introduction
Most of the articles published in this special issue on Public Sport History and Community sport were presented at a symposium held both in person and online for international participants at Macqu
Gendered, aesthetic and emotional labour in Australian department stores across the twentieth century
This article examines the historical exploitation of female labour in Australian department stores. These stores extracted significant value through gendered, aesthetic, and emotional labour. Female employees were systematically underpaid in relation to male workers. They were expected to maintain appropriate and prescribed appearances, provide personalised customer service, and possess detailed product knowledge. Retailers worked hard to constra…
The ‘Most dramatic evidence of progress and expansion’
This article charts the development of regional shopping centres in Sydney’s western suburbs during the 1970s. It shows how rapid population growth on the metropolitan fringe encouraged investment in large-scale retail property development that accommodated the needs of the city’s biggest department store firms. Many of these firms had been involved in the first wave of shopping centre development in middle-ring suburbs in the 1960s. In the 1970s…
Histories of Australian retailing
This special edition contributes to the growing scholarship on Australian retail history. It collates a range of work that represents and extends existing themes in Australian retail historiography with the aim of encouraging further work in the field. Topics covered include: Chinese storekeepers in remote regional communities, transnational flows of goods to these communities, colonial arcades and department stores, intercolonial rivalry and boo…
Retail Suburbanization, Modernization, and Growth in Sydney during Australia’s Postwar Boom
This article uses Sydney as a case study to examine the process of retail decentralization during Australia’s postwar boom, showing how the form and function of capital city retailing changed completely in just a couple of decades. Suburban migration, the emergence of mobile car-driving consumers, socially constructed gender roles, the ongoing importance of public transport networks, planning regimes that sought to concentrate development in desi…
Feudal Barons Extracting Tribute”
This article analyzes the ways that shopping center tenants deployed narratives to encourage government intervention in the Australian retail property sector during the 1980s. Tenants claimed that landlords were abusing their market power through a range of egregious and exploitative practices. Landlords responded with stories of their own, claiming that amateurish retailers were using isolated cases to make broad generalizations about the indust…
What's in a Name? The Length of Westminster Constituency Titles, 1950–2024
Parliamentary constituencies in the UK are named after the areas they cover. Over the last seventy years, the titles given to these constituencies have been getting longer and more cumbersome. They are now less likely to consist of single words and are more likely to be compounds of multiple places. The article demonstrates these changes, including the differences across the constituent nations of the UK, and discusses the possible reasons for th…
You Betray Your Country”
In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released Bringing Them Home, documenting historical practices of forced Indigenous child removal in devastating detail. The report was released into a fractious political environment in which historicised understandings of race were being heatedly debated. Responses to the report played out through the media as conservatives sought to reassert a traditional narrative of Australian history…
Cousins Once Removed? Revisiting the Relationship between Oral History and Business History
This article analyses the evolving relationship between mainstream oral history and business oral history, and explores the ways in which the latter has been deployed and discussed in business history journals. Business historians have, until relatively recently, tended to utilize oral history as a means to fill gaps in the archive. Interviews thus made important contributions to business history studies, but much of their potential remained unta…
Snowball Sampling in Business Oral History
This article reports on the methodology for recruiting oral history interviewees for a project on the history of shopping center development in Australia. Snowball sampling produced a data set that added value to extant archival and media sources, rendering detailed information about firm operations, strategies, and innovations. The construction of the sample was also revealing of the industry itself, with interviewee referral chains connecting i…
Urban disruption, suburbanization and retail innovation
Australian cities were transformed in the 1950s and 1960s by the spread of the automobile and suburbanization. This article examines the patterns of retail diffusion that followed and the resultant adoption of the shopping centre form. Further, it considers the broader implications of retail innovation during a period of urban disruption, revealing intersections between urban geographies, business innovation and retail hierarchies. In the Austral…
On-campus, distance or online? Influences on student decision-making about study modes at university
This article examines the choices students make when deciding the mode of study they will enrol in for university. It expands on previous work in the field by surveying 744 Faculty of Arts students at an Australian university who had the choice of enrolling in one of three study modes: on-campus, distance or purely online. Influences on enrolment mode were categorised into six factors: personal, logistics, teaching and learning, learning support,…
Why Weren’t We Taught? Exploring Frontier Conflict Through the Lens of Anzac
This article examines public understandings of two key strands of Australian history that sit at opposite ends of a spectrum of remembrance: frontier conflict and Anzac. The former, W. E. H. Stanner argued in 1968, was subsumed in a vacuum of silence, lost to popular consciousness in a wilful act of forgetting. Despite a wealth of subsequent scholarship documenting the violence and dispossession that characterised European colonisation, considera…
Absorptive Capacity, International Business Knowledge Transfer, and Local Adaptation
This article examines the ways that Australia's largest retail firms accessed and adapted external knowledge flows, largely from the USA, to develop discount department store chains from the late‐1960s onwards. In doing so, it extends work on retail internationalisation by focusing on the importation, rather than the exportation of business models. The three firms – Coles, Myer and Woolworths – exhibited differing degrees of absorptive capacity i…
Chinese-English Retour
The chronic shortage of native English speakers who are competent in Chinese has made it imperative that native Chinese speakers who have been professionally trained to be interpreters work bidirectionally between Chinese and English.This presents a unique challenge to interpreters in China compared to interpreters working with European languages, who are required only to work into their mother tongue.This paper aims to address the issues that Ch…
Retailing and the Home in 1960s Sydney
The retail industry is intimately tied to demography. In the 1960s, as the car drove populations outwards from the urban core, Australia’s big city stores watched their sales stagnate. The market had moved to the suburbs and companies with the vision and opportunity followed. Using examples from Sydney, this paper examines the idea of home through the lens of this rapidly changing retail geography. It argues that by reading retail we can gain fre…
Shopping for entertainment
This article examines multiplex cinema development and its close association with shopping centre expansion programmes in Australia. The article argues that while multiplex cinema construction in Australia echoed international developments, it also resulted from coalescing interests between local retail developers and film exhibitors, was guided by planning legislation and shaped by escalating institutional investment in the retail industry. Data…
From the Guest Editors
Shopping Centres and Sustainability
Mocedades de Rodrigo. Estudio y edición de los tres estados del texto . Leonardo Funes , Felipe Tenenbaum
Peasants' Uprising or Religious War? Re-examining the 1975 Conservative Leadership Contest
This article analyses the nature of the support given to the candidates in the 1975 Conservative leadership contest, in which Margaret Thatcher replaced Edward Heath. In contrast to the orthodox account of the contest – which interprets it as largely non-ideological – the article argues that there were clear ideological forces at work. The right strongly supported Thatcher in both rounds; the left strongly backed Heath and then Whitelaw. Region, …
Poema de Fernan Gonzalez
Peasants' Uprising or Religious War? Re-examining the 1975 Conservative Leadership Contest
This article analyses the nature of the support given to the candidates in the 1975 Conservative leadership contest, in which Margaret Thatcher replaced Edward Heath. In contrast to the orthodox account of the contest – which interprets it as largely non-ideological – the article argues that there were clear ideological forces at work. The right strongly supported Thatcher in both rounds; the left strongly backed Heath and then Whitelaw. Region, …
Cousins Once Removed? Revisiting the Relationship between Oral History and Business History
This article analyses the evolving relationship between mainstream oral history and business oral history, and explores the ways in which the latter has been deployed and discussed in business history journals. Business historians have, until relatively recently, tended to utilize oral history as a means to fill gaps in the archive. Interviews thus made important contributions to business history studies, but much of their potential remained unta…
Snowball Sampling in Business Oral History
This article reports on the methodology for recruiting oral history interviewees for a project on the history of shopping center development in Australia. Snowball sampling produced a data set that added value to extant archival and media sources, rendering detailed information about firm operations, strategies, and innovations. The construction of the sample was also revealing of the industry itself, with interviewee referral chains connecting i…
Urban disruption, suburbanization and retail innovation
Australian cities were transformed in the 1950s and 1960s by the spread of the automobile and suburbanization. This article examines the patterns of retail diffusion that followed and the resultant adoption of the shopping centre form. Further, it considers the broader implications of retail innovation during a period of urban disruption, revealing intersections between urban geographies, business innovation and retail hierarchies. In the Austral…
Shopping for entertainment
This article examines multiplex cinema development and its close association with shopping centre expansion programmes in Australia. The article argues that while multiplex cinema construction in Australia echoed international developments, it also resulted from coalescing interests between local retail developers and film exhibitors, was guided by planning legislation and shaped by escalating institutional investment in the retail industry. Data…
Retailing and the Home in 1960s Sydney
The retail industry is intimately tied to demography. In the 1960s, as the car drove populations outwards from the urban core, Australia’s big city stores watched their sales stagnate. The market had moved to the suburbs and companies with the vision and opportunity followed. Using examples from Sydney, this paper examines the idea of home through the lens of this rapidly changing retail geography. It argues that by reading retail we can gain fre…
The "Poema del Cid" and the "Poema de Fernan Gonzalez
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Poema de Fernan Gonzalez
Peasants' Uprising or Religious War? Re-examining the 1975 Conservative Leadership Contest
This article analyses the nature of the support given to the candidates in the 1975 Conservative leadership contest, in which Margaret Thatcher replaced Edward Heath. In contrast to the orthodox account of the contest – which interprets it as largely non-ideological – the article argues that there were clear ideological forces at work. The right strongly supported Thatcher in both rounds; the left strongly backed Heath and then Whitelaw. Region, …
Shopping Centres and Sustainability
Mocedades de Rodrigo. Estudio y edición de los tres estados del texto . Leonardo Funes , Felipe Tenenbaum
From the Guest Editors
Retailing and the Home in 1960s Sydney
The retail industry is intimately tied to demography. In the 1960s, as the car drove populations outwards from the urban core, Australia’s big city stores watched their sales stagnate. The market had moved to the suburbs and companies with the vision and opportunity followed. Using examples from Sydney, this paper examines the idea of home through the lens of this rapidly changing retail geography. It argues that by reading retail we can gain fre…
Shopping for entertainment
This article examines multiplex cinema development and its close association with shopping centre expansion programmes in Australia. The article argues that while multiplex cinema construction in Australia echoed international developments, it also resulted from coalescing interests between local retail developers and film exhibitors, was guided by planning legislation and shaped by escalating institutional investment in the retail industry. Data…
Chinese-English Retour
The chronic shortage of native English speakers who are competent in Chinese has made it imperative that native Chinese speakers who have been professionally trained to be interpreters work bidirectionally between Chinese and English.This presents a unique challenge to interpreters in China compared to interpreters working with European languages, who are required only to work into their mother tongue.This paper aims to address the issues that Ch…
Absorptive Capacity, International Business Knowledge Transfer, and Local Adaptation
This article examines the ways that Australia's largest retail firms accessed and adapted external knowledge flows, largely from the USA, to develop discount department store chains from the late‐1960s onwards. In doing so, it extends work on retail internationalisation by focusing on the importation, rather than the exportation of business models. The three firms – Coles, Myer and Woolworths – exhibited differing degrees of absorptive capacity i…
On-campus, distance or online? Influences on student decision-making about study modes at university
This article examines the choices students make when deciding the mode of study they will enrol in for university. It expands on previous work in the field by surveying 744 Faculty of Arts students at an Australian university who had the choice of enrolling in one of three study modes: on-campus, distance or purely online. Influences on enrolment mode were categorised into six factors: personal, logistics, teaching and learning, learning support,…
Why Weren’t We Taught? Exploring Frontier Conflict Through the Lens of Anzac
This article examines public understandings of two key strands of Australian history that sit at opposite ends of a spectrum of remembrance: frontier conflict and Anzac. The former, W. E. H. Stanner argued in 1968, was subsumed in a vacuum of silence, lost to popular consciousness in a wilful act of forgetting. Despite a wealth of subsequent scholarship documenting the violence and dispossession that characterised European colonisation, considera…
Cousins Once Removed? Revisiting the Relationship between Oral History and Business History
This article analyses the evolving relationship between mainstream oral history and business oral history, and explores the ways in which the latter has been deployed and discussed in business history journals. Business historians have, until relatively recently, tended to utilize oral history as a means to fill gaps in the archive. Interviews thus made important contributions to business history studies, but much of their potential remained unta…
Snowball Sampling in Business Oral History
This article reports on the methodology for recruiting oral history interviewees for a project on the history of shopping center development in Australia. Snowball sampling produced a data set that added value to extant archival and media sources, rendering detailed information about firm operations, strategies, and innovations. The construction of the sample was also revealing of the industry itself, with interviewee referral chains connecting i…
Urban disruption, suburbanization and retail innovation
Australian cities were transformed in the 1950s and 1960s by the spread of the automobile and suburbanization. This article examines the patterns of retail diffusion that followed and the resultant adoption of the shopping centre form. Further, it considers the broader implications of retail innovation during a period of urban disruption, revealing intersections between urban geographies, business innovation and retail hierarchies. In the Austral…
You Betray Your Country”
In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released Bringing Them Home, documenting historical practices of forced Indigenous child removal in devastating detail. The report was released into a fractious political environment in which historicised understandings of race were being heatedly debated. Responses to the report played out through the media as conservatives sought to reassert a traditional narrative of Australian history…
Feudal Barons Extracting Tribute”
This article analyzes the ways that shopping center tenants deployed narratives to encourage government intervention in the Australian retail property sector during the 1980s. Tenants claimed that landlords were abusing their market power through a range of egregious and exploitative practices. Landlords responded with stories of their own, claiming that amateurish retailers were using isolated cases to make broad generalizations about the indust…
What's in a Name? The Length of Westminster Constituency Titles, 1950–2024
Parliamentary constituencies in the UK are named after the areas they cover. Over the last seventy years, the titles given to these constituencies have been getting longer and more cumbersome. They are now less likely to consist of single words and are more likely to be compounds of multiple places. The article demonstrates these changes, including the differences across the constituent nations of the UK, and discusses the possible reasons for th…
The ‘Most dramatic evidence of progress and expansion’
This article charts the development of regional shopping centres in Sydney’s western suburbs during the 1970s. It shows how rapid population growth on the metropolitan fringe encouraged investment in large-scale retail property development that accommodated the needs of the city’s biggest department store firms. Many of these firms had been involved in the first wave of shopping centre development in middle-ring suburbs in the 1960s. In the 1970s…
Histories of Australian retailing
This special edition contributes to the growing scholarship on Australian retail history. It collates a range of work that represents and extends existing themes in Australian retail historiography with the aim of encouraging further work in the field. Topics covered include: Chinese storekeepers in remote regional communities, transnational flows of goods to these communities, colonial arcades and department stores, intercolonial rivalry and boo…
Retail Suburbanization, Modernization, and Growth in Sydney during Australia’s Postwar Boom
This article uses Sydney as a case study to examine the process of retail decentralization during Australia’s postwar boom, showing how the form and function of capital city retailing changed completely in just a couple of decades. Suburban migration, the emergence of mobile car-driving consumers, socially constructed gender roles, the ongoing importance of public transport networks, planning regimes that sought to concentrate development in desi…
Managing time, spending time
Introduction
Introduction
Most of the articles published in this special issue on Public Sport History and Community sport were presented at a symposium held both in person and online for international participants at Macqu
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · History (8 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 works)