Robert Bollard
Biographic Data
| ID | 690296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Bollard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Bollard |
| SIGNATURE | BOLLARD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Union Goes to War
The Great War saw dramatic growth in the Victorian State Services Federation, the union that covered state public servants and a variety of other public sector workers. The economic and political crisis engendered by the war is revealed, not only in this growth, but in an internal argument (and split) within the Federation over the issue of the Federation’s support for Maurice Blackburn in the 1917 state election. The sectarian dimensions of this…
Labour and the Politics of Empire
Neville Kirk has undertaken a project that is ambitious in scope, a survey of more than a century of the history of British and Australian Labor/Labour parties with a particular emphasis on their i
The Great Strike of 1917 — Was Defeat Inevitable
The Great Strike of 1917 was, arguably, the greatest class confrontation in Australian history. For five weeks, the eastern states of Australia were paralysed by a mass strike, driven from below by a rank and file paying little heed to their reluctant leaders. Strike action involved nearly 100,000 workers and was only defeated by mass scabbing masterminded by conservative state and federal governments. Historians have tended to dismiss the Great …
Psychological Socialism
Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout
Part 1: The Context 1. Capitalist crisis in 1926 John Foster, University of Paisley 2. The state of the unions: the MFGB in 1926 Alan Campbell and John McIlroy 3. Employer militancy in the 1926 lock-out Quentin Outram, University of Leeds Part 2: Regional Studies 4. The dispute in south Wales Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan 5. Developments in the Scottish coalfields Alan Campbell 6. The case of Lancashire Steve Catterall, University of Yo…
The Active Chorus
Of the 97,000 workers who struck during the Great Strike of 1917 nearly 13 percent were Victorian. The lack of attention that historians have paid to the Great Strike has been particularly alarming with regard to these Victorian strikers. The aim of this article is to begin to redress this balance, as part of the project of reshaping our understanding of what was, arguably, the greatest period of working-class radicalisation in Australian history…
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Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout
Part 1: The Context 1. Capitalist crisis in 1926 John Foster, University of Paisley 2. The state of the unions: the MFGB in 1926 Alan Campbell and John McIlroy 3. Employer militancy in the 1926 lock-out Quentin Outram, University of Leeds Part 2: Regional Studies 4. The dispute in south Wales Chris Williams, University of Glamorgan 5. Developments in the Scottish coalfields Alan Campbell 6. The case of Lancashire Steve Catterall, University of Yo…
The Active Chorus
Of the 97,000 workers who struck during the Great Strike of 1917 nearly 13 percent were Victorian. The lack of attention that historians have paid to the Great Strike has been particularly alarming with regard to these Victorian strikers. The aim of this article is to begin to redress this balance, as part of the project of reshaping our understanding of what was, arguably, the greatest period of working-class radicalisation in Australian history…
Psychological Socialism
The Great Strike of 1917 — Was Defeat Inevitable
The Great Strike of 1917 was, arguably, the greatest class confrontation in Australian history. For five weeks, the eastern states of Australia were paralysed by a mass strike, driven from below by a rank and file paying little heed to their reluctant leaders. Strike action involved nearly 100,000 workers and was only defeated by mass scabbing masterminded by conservative state and federal governments. Historians have tended to dismiss the Great …
Labour and the Politics of Empire
Neville Kirk has undertaken a project that is ambitious in scope, a survey of more than a century of the history of British and Australian Labor/Labour parties with a particular emphasis on their i
A Union Goes to War
The Great War saw dramatic growth in the Victorian State Services Federation, the union that covered state public servants and a variety of other public sector workers. The economic and political crisis engendered by the war is revealed, not only in this growth, but in an internal argument (and split) within the Federation over the issue of the Federation’s support for Maurice Blackburn in the 1917 state election. The sectarian dimensions of this…
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