Verity Burgmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 687864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verity Burgmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verity |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgmann |
| SIGNATURE | BURGMANN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Spectre of the Manifesto: Classical Marxism and Its Discontents
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Yesterday: Eutopia, Dystopia and Violence in Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987) and Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956) were prolific Australian authors who co-wrote, under the pseudonym “M. Barnard Eldershaw,” five novels and four works of nonfiction published between 1929 and 1947. Their final collaboration, a future fiction entitled Tomorrow and Tomorrow, first appeared in Melbourne in 1947 and was reissued by the London feminist publisher Virago in 1983. Lyman Tower Sargent’s bibliography of Australi…
Utopia and Utopian Studies in Australia
There are no independently Australian translations of Thomas More's Utopia. Nor is there any equivalent in Australia to the Society for Utopian Studies in North America or the Utopian Studies Society in Europe. Nor are there any extant formal research groups or undergraduate or graduate courses in utopian studies. There are, however, distinctively Australian traditions of utopian writing, both eutopian and dystopian, and also a limited field of A…
Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In de…
The Global Labour History Network
Le mouvement des « green bans: Pouvoir ouvrier et militantisme environnemental dans l'Australie des années 1970
L'arme ultime des syndicats de travailleurs reste le refus de travailler. Dans les années 1970 en Australie, cette arme a été utilisée par des syndicats radicalisés afin de faire avancer des causes qui dépassaient largement l'intérêt immédiat de leurs membres et mettaient en avant la « responsabilité sociale et environnementale du travail ». En décrétant des boycotts pour raisons écologiques, sociales et urbanistiques, le syndicat de la construct…
The Multitude and the Many-Headed Hydra: Autonomist Marxist Theory and Labor History
The autonomist Marxist critique of determinist Marxism offers even more valuable insights for labor historians than that mounted by earlier antideterminists, such as Sartre and Thompson, who emphasized proletarian agency to counter determinist orthodoxy in which the accumulative logic of capital unilaterally shapes the world. Autonomist Marxism is more far-reaching. It places labor at the very beginning of the labor-capital dialectic: Labor can e…
Doing Without the Boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s
Experiments with workers' control occurred in many countries during the late post-war boom period in circumstances of heightened industrial militancy and a crisis in employer and state authority. They are again popular under different conditions, especially in Argentina and Venezuela. Such episodes demonstrate that labour can exist without capital, whereas capital is always dependent on labour. This essential autonomy of labour from capital is a …
Ecotopians in Hardhats
According to Lyman Tower Sargent, utopias are repositories for individual and collective hopes and fears, which sometimes unleash energies that can achieve at least part of what is hoped for. The Australian green bans movement of 1971–75 can be understood as a utopian project in this sense. During this period, the construction workers organized in the New South Wales branch of a labor union, known as the Builders Labourers' Federation, refused to…
Futures without financial crises: Utopian literature in the 1890s and 1930s
Australian utopian fiction of the 1890s and 1930s reflects the traumatic impact of the economic crises of these decades and expresses desire to avoid the insecurities of capitalism. There are significant differences, however, in the imaginative reach of the utopias devised in the 1890s and those formulated in the 1930s. In Australia in the 1890s, the possibilities for progress and perfection were varied. Unionism, socialist legislation, the forma…
The Green Bans Movement: Workers’ Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s
The Green Bans Movement:Workers' Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s Verity Burgmann The power of labor to confront those who would damage and pollute the environment is commonly discounted in academic discussions of ecological problems. This tendency reveals the influence of new social movement theory, dominant in the late 1970s and 1980s, which typically denigrated the labor movement for becoming institutionalized and inca…
Contesting the injuries of class
In countless parades and protests, working-class people have proudly presented themselves, as producers, creators of the wealth expropriated unfairly from them by the exploiting classes and analysis of the content of this agitation. Propaganda suggests that these parades and protests express a politics of identity based on class. Protests such as the unemployment movement of the great depression, expressed a shared identity based on economic expl…
Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements
This lively book blends the voices and experiences of insiders involved in particular causes with a bigger picture that analyses successes and failures, communication of ideas and social and political impacts
From Syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the Politics of Identity
In the first half of the twentieth century the labor movement promoted the notion of separate working-class values and interests—evident for example in American and European syndicalism, British interwar Communism and Australian interwar Laborism—and was thus identifiable as a social movement. Like the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this prewar identity politics successfully mobilized imagined political communities. By contrast, the…
Hard Times but No Hard Words: A Rejoinder
“From Syndicalism to Seattle” was first delivered to ILWCH late in 2000, conceived during the highpoint of post-Seattle euphoria and before the events of 9/11. In some obvious ways the anticorporate movement in North America and Australia has since fallen on harder times due to: the necessary diversion of radical energies into the antiwar movement and opposition to inept and authoritarian counterterrorism initiatives; a reluctance on the part of …
Commentary: Apsa presidential address 2003: the beginning of politics and the first human
Additional informationNotes on contributorsVerity Burgmann Verity Burgmann is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourne and was the 2002-03 President of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA). This address was delivered at the APSA Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 September 2003. Verity Burgmann is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourn…
Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation
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
Labour/Le Travail and Canadian Working-Class History: A View from Afar
This article attempts to explain the similarities and parallels between Labour/ Le Travail and its Australian equivalent, Labour History; as well as analysing Labour/Le Travail's distinctive interests and concerns, which reflect the peculiarities of the Canadian. It suggests, in particular, that the timing of Labour/Le Travail's appearance was propitious and that it was well positioned for various reasons to take advantage of the Thompsonian mome…
The social responsibility of labour versus the environmental impact of property capital: The Australian green bans movement
Between 1971 and 1975 Australian building industry workers withdrew their labour from environmentally irresponsible projects and, in coining the term ‘green ban’ to describe their action, originated the political designation ‘green’. Alienated from the products of their own labour and committed to ideas about the social responsibility of labour, they directly confronted what Lamarche [1976] has identified as the ‘planning role’ of property capita…
Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourer's Federation
The engrossing story of the BLF's Green Bans and how Australians were sharply polarised during the 1970s while green bans, builders' labourers and Jack Mundey became household words
Antipodean Peculiarities: Comparing the Australian IWW with the American
"The Point of Change" and the Health of Labour History
It is indeed a sign of the times that The Point of Change has been published in house rather than by a mainstream publisher. As a result, there is a discrepancy between form and content, between the poor production values and the generally high quality of the essays. Had this conference been staged 25 years earlier, commercial publishers would have competed to publish such a collection, for Marxism and class analysis were then ascendant within ac…
A rare shift in public thinking: Jack Mundey and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation
union practices, and also the necessity of working-class action in defence of the environment and in support of women, homosexuals, and indigenous Australians. His success as an 'organic' working-class intellectual stemmed from his ability to present working-class ideas as representative of universal interests, and trade union work bans as activity on behalf of the whole of society. Mobilising an enthusiastic 'subaltern counterpublic' in support …
Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia
Power and Protest: Movements for Change in Australian Society
Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In de…
In Our Time: Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885-1905
Abbreviations..Acknowledgements..Foreword..1 Introduction..2 William Lane: Bound for New Australia..3 The quarrelsome comrades: NSW 1887-1890..4 Ideology and organisation: NSW 1890-1898..5 The impact of socialism: NSW in the nineties..6 Dealing with the downturn: NSW 1898-1905..7 'Don't boast Victoria's matchless growth': Socialism in Victoria..8 'We are slow and unsatisfactory in Tasmania'..9 'The land, the land, 'twas God who gave the land': So…
A rare shift in public thinking: Jack Mundey and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation
union practices, and also the necessity of working-class action in defence of the environment and in support of women, homosexuals, and indigenous Australians. His success as an 'organic' working-class intellectual stemmed from his ability to present working-class ideas as representative of universal interests, and trade union work bans as activity on behalf of the whole of society. Mobilising an enthusiastic 'subaltern counterpublic' in support …
From Syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the Politics of Identity
In the first half of the twentieth century the labor movement promoted the notion of separate working-class values and interests—evident for example in American and European syndicalism, British interwar Communism and Australian interwar Laborism—and was thus identifiable as a social movement. Like the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this prewar identity politics successfully mobilized imagined political communities. By contrast, the…
The social responsibility of labour versus the environmental impact of property capital: The Australian green bans movement
Between 1971 and 1975 Australian building industry workers withdrew their labour from environmentally irresponsible projects and, in coining the term ‘green ban’ to describe their action, originated the political designation ‘green’. Alienated from the products of their own labour and committed to ideas about the social responsibility of labour, they directly confronted what Lamarche [1976] has identified as the ‘planning role’ of property capita…
The Multitude and the Many-Headed Hydra: Autonomist Marxist Theory and Labor History
The autonomist Marxist critique of determinist Marxism offers even more valuable insights for labor historians than that mounted by earlier antideterminists, such as Sartre and Thompson, who emphasized proletarian agency to counter determinist orthodoxy in which the accumulative logic of capital unilaterally shapes the world. Autonomist Marxism is more far-reaching. It places labor at the very beginning of the labor-capital dialectic: Labor can e…
Contesting the injuries of class
In countless parades and protests, working-class people have proudly presented themselves, as producers, creators of the wealth expropriated unfairly from them by the exploiting classes and analysis of the content of this agitation. Propaganda suggests that these parades and protests express a politics of identity based on class. Protests such as the unemployment movement of the great depression, expressed a shared identity based on economic expl…
Commentary: Apsa presidential address 2003: the beginning of politics and the first human
Additional informationNotes on contributorsVerity Burgmann Verity Burgmann is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourne and was the 2002-03 President of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA). This address was delivered at the APSA Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 September 2003. Verity Burgmann is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourn…
Labour/Le Travail and Canadian Working-Class History: A View from Afar
This article attempts to explain the similarities and parallels between Labour/ Le Travail and its Australian equivalent, Labour History; as well as analysing Labour/Le Travail's distinctive interests and concerns, which reflect the peculiarities of the Canadian. It suggests, in particular, that the timing of Labour/Le Travail's appearance was propitious and that it was well positioned for various reasons to take advantage of the Thompsonian mome…
Australia deconstructed? Assembling a people's history of Australia since 1788
(1988). Australia deconstructed? Assembling a people's history of Australia since 1788. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 23, No. 91, pp. 153-161
Capital and Labour
Capital and Labour
International Socialism and Australian Labour. The Left in Australia 1919-1939
Wunderbar Country, Germans look at Australia, 1850-1914
Racism, Socialism, and the Labour Movement, 1887-1917
In our Time'. Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885-1905
In Our Time: Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885-1905
Abbreviations..Acknowledgements..Foreword..1 Introduction..2 William Lane: Bound for New Australia..3 The quarrelsome comrades: NSW 1887-1890..4 Ideology and organisation: NSW 1890-1898..5 The impact of socialism: NSW in the nineties..6 Dealing with the downturn: NSW 1898-1905..7 'Don't boast Victoria's matchless growth': Socialism in Victoria..8 'We are slow and unsatisfactory in Tasmania'..9 'The land, the land, 'twas God who gave the land': So…
Australia deconstructed? Assembling a people's history of Australia since 1788
(1988). Australia deconstructed? Assembling a people's history of Australia since 1788. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 23, No. 91, pp. 153-161
A People's History of Australia Since 1788: A Most Valuable Acquisition
Radical History in Australia: A Model for Canada
Power and Protest: Movements for Change in Australian Society
Black movement, white stubbornness Two steps forward, one step back? The women's movement Out and proudly out - the lesbian and gay movements The politics of survival - the peace and green movements
A People's History of Australia since 1788
Power and Protest: Movements for Change in Australian Society
Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia
Antipodean Peculiarities: Comparing the Australian IWW with the American
"The Point of Change" and the Health of Labour History
It is indeed a sign of the times that The Point of Change has been published in house rather than by a mainstream publisher. As a result, there is a discrepancy between form and content, between the poor production values and the generally high quality of the essays. Had this conference been staged 25 years earlier, commercial publishers would have competed to publish such a collection, for Marxism and class analysis were then ascendant within ac…
A rare shift in public thinking: Jack Mundey and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation
union practices, and also the necessity of working-class action in defence of the environment and in support of women, homosexuals, and indigenous Australians. His success as an 'organic' working-class intellectual stemmed from his ability to present working-class ideas as representative of universal interests, and trade union work bans as activity on behalf of the whole of society. Mobilising an enthusiastic 'subaltern counterpublic' in support …
The social responsibility of labour versus the environmental impact of property capital: The Australian green bans movement
Between 1971 and 1975 Australian building industry workers withdrew their labour from environmentally irresponsible projects and, in coining the term ‘green ban’ to describe their action, originated the political designation ‘green’. Alienated from the products of their own labour and committed to ideas about the social responsibility of labour, they directly confronted what Lamarche [1976] has identified as the ‘planning role’ of property capita…
Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourer's Federation
The engrossing story of the BLF's Green Bans and how Australians were sharply polarised during the 1970s while green bans, builders' labourers and Jack Mundey became household words
Labour/Le Travail and Canadian Working-Class History: A View from Afar
This article attempts to explain the similarities and parallels between Labour/ Le Travail and its Australian equivalent, Labour History; as well as analysing Labour/Le Travail's distinctive interests and concerns, which reflect the peculiarities of the Canadian. It suggests, in particular, that the timing of Labour/Le Travail's appearance was propitious and that it was well positioned for various reasons to take advantage of the Thompsonian mome…
Commentary: Apsa presidential address 2003: the beginning of politics and the first human
Additional informationNotes on contributorsVerity Burgmann Verity Burgmann is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourne and was the 2002-03 President of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA). This address was delivered at the APSA Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 September 2003. Verity Burgmann is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourn…
Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation
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
From Syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the Politics of Identity
In the first half of the twentieth century the labor movement promoted the notion of separate working-class values and interests—evident for example in American and European syndicalism, British interwar Communism and Australian interwar Laborism—and was thus identifiable as a social movement. Like the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this prewar identity politics successfully mobilized imagined political communities. By contrast, the…
Hard Times but No Hard Words: A Rejoinder
“From Syndicalism to Seattle” was first delivered to ILWCH late in 2000, conceived during the highpoint of post-Seattle euphoria and before the events of 9/11. In some obvious ways the anticorporate movement in North America and Australia has since fallen on harder times due to: the necessary diversion of radical energies into the antiwar movement and opposition to inept and authoritarian counterterrorism initiatives; a reluctance on the part of …
Contesting the injuries of class
In countless parades and protests, working-class people have proudly presented themselves, as producers, creators of the wealth expropriated unfairly from them by the exploiting classes and analysis of the content of this agitation. Propaganda suggests that these parades and protests express a politics of identity based on class. Protests such as the unemployment movement of the great depression, expressed a shared identity based on economic expl…
Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements
This lively book blends the voices and experiences of insiders involved in particular causes with a bigger picture that analyses successes and failures, communication of ideas and social and political impacts
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