John Lack
Biographic Data
| ID | 688466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Lack |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Lack |
| SIGNATURE | LACK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Descent into Hell
By dealing with both the failed British Malaya-Singapore campaign and POWs’ subsequent three and a half years of captivity, Brune's blockbuster breaks new ground. In Parts I and II, the first 400 o
The Great Strike of 1917 in Victoria
The strike of 1917 in Melbourne had its origins in the industrial changes that took place in the city in the first two decades of the twentieth century, and the industrial tensions of the decade before the war were exacerbated by the circumstances of war. Unemployment, seasonal and general, made men vulnerable to moral blackmail to enlist, true victims of 'economic conscription.' And the fact that industrial confrontation persisted into 1919-20 s…
Books
Silent forms of coercion
From 1890 through the early decades of the twentieth century, the Colonial Sugar Refinery under the leadership of Edward Knox introduced a wide range of welfare measures including pensions, sickness benefits, company housing and company loans for houses. Through these measures Knox hoped to insulate his workforce from unions and state regulation of the labour market. However, his workforce lived and worked in industrial suburbs where they could c…
Working at Sunshine
In the 1950s unemployment in Australia fell to record low levels. Official records record the low levels of unemployment but tell little about the way workers and employers reacted to this new environment. The personnel records of Massey-Ferguson at Sunshine are a window into the world of manufacturing work in the 1950s. Through a sample drawn from individual employee records we explore how workers at a major manufacturing firm reacted to a full-…
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
Women in conversation
This article examines the gendered dimensions of relationships in the conduct of a major academic Australian social survey in Melbourne in the early years of the Second World War.Despite its grounding in methodology current in Britain at the time, its execution and outcomes mirrored the gendered and classed nature of the survey, with its male direction, middleclass female interviewers, and largely working-class respondents.The value of 'women's c…
Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works
The Sunshine Harvester Works, occupying the same site from 1906 until 1987, was unquestionably one of the more significant workplaces in the history of industrial relations in twentieth-century Aus
A Kind of Elysium Where Nobody Has Anything Difficult to Do
Leichhardt
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
Melbourne
The Spectre of White Australia
The Mt Kembla Disaster
A History of Footscray
Asian Immigrants to Western Australia
Nineteenth Century Sydney
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Nineteenth Century Sydney
Asian Immigrants to Western Australia
A History of Footscray
The Mt Kembla Disaster
Melbourne
The Spectre of White Australia
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
Leichhardt
A Kind of Elysium Where Nobody Has Anything Difficult to Do
Women in conversation
This article examines the gendered dimensions of relationships in the conduct of a major academic Australian social survey in Melbourne in the early years of the Second World War.Despite its grounding in methodology current in Britain at the time, its execution and outcomes mirrored the gendered and classed nature of the survey, with its male direction, middleclass female interviewers, and largely working-class respondents.The value of 'women's c…
Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works
The Sunshine Harvester Works, occupying the same site from 1906 until 1987, was unquestionably one of the more significant workplaces in the history of industrial relations in twentieth-century Aus
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
Working at Sunshine
In the 1950s unemployment in Australia fell to record low levels. Official records record the low levels of unemployment but tell little about the way workers and employers reacted to this new environment. The personnel records of Massey-Ferguson at Sunshine are a window into the world of manufacturing work in the 1950s. Through a sample drawn from individual employee records we explore how workers at a major manufacturing firm reacted to a full-…
Silent forms of coercion
From 1890 through the early decades of the twentieth century, the Colonial Sugar Refinery under the leadership of Edward Knox introduced a wide range of welfare measures including pensions, sickness benefits, company housing and company loans for houses. Through these measures Knox hoped to insulate his workforce from unions and state regulation of the labour market. However, his workforce lived and worked in industrial suburbs where they could c…
Books
The Great Strike of 1917 in Victoria
The strike of 1917 in Melbourne had its origins in the industrial changes that took place in the city in the first two decades of the twentieth century, and the industrial tensions of the decade before the war were exacerbated by the circumstances of war. Unemployment, seasonal and general, made men vulnerable to moral blackmail to enlist, true victims of 'economic conscription.' And the fact that industrial confrontation persisted into 1919-20 s…
Descent into Hell
By dealing with both the failed British Malaya-Singapore campaign and POWs’ subsequent three and a half years of captivity, Brune's blockbuster breaks new ground. In Parts I and II, the first 400 o
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