Robert Tierney
Biographic Data
| ID | 691026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Tierney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Tierney |
| SIGNATURE | TIERNEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4713-9803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The 1913-14 Dryland Agriculture Strike in New South Wales
Unlike the USA States and Great Britain, studies of class struggle between landholders and farm labourers in Australian dryland agriculture, throughout colonial and post-colonial times, are almost absent. This article attempts to fill part of the vacuum. It analyses an important, though hardly known strike in New South Wales in 1913-14. It was initiated by farm labourers in wheat fields, by chaff workers in fodder paddocks, and by cart owners and…
An introduction to the field of abundant economic thought
The problems facing the 21st century world, and the new technologies that have emerged to meet them, are harbingers of a new industrial revolution–Industry 4.0 (I4.0). The resulting information-based economy is challenging traditional economic thought, as evidenced by the appearance of “Abundance” as an economic philosophy. Abundant economic thought is relatively undeveloped. Here, authors help define the field of Abundance based on the possibili…
“We will never forget 1964!” Shopfloor Organisation and the Class Politics of Trade Union Officials at General Motors‐Holden
The article outlines the theory of contingent bureaucratic conservatism of trade union officials, which contends that elected officials represent a conservative stratum in the class struggle. The article also examines arguments made by those who oppose it, partly on the basis that it does not stand up to rigorous empirical analysis. The article tests the theory in the context of the important dispute at General Motors‐Holden's in Australia in Oct…
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa
Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately mined. Islands of Protest attempts to address this lacuna with this new selection of critically acclaimed modern and contemporary works in English.The anthology includes poetry, fiction, and drama, dr…
Three raindrops and some dust’: Combining archival and GIS analysis to map the spatial distribution of the impact of the Federation Drought of 1895–1903 in rural New South Wales
Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity and State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012
Ming-sho Ho’s new book Working Class Formation in Taiwan is an impressive work. Examining more than five decades of political economy in Taiwan between 1945 and 2012, it raises the central question
Multilingual Practices, Critical Literacies, and Visual Culture: A Focus on African Contexts
In this essay, we review and comment on three books that focus on language, literacy, and visual and cultural communication: English as a Local Language: Post‐Colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices by Christina Higgins ; Literacy and Power by Hilary Janks; and South African Visual Culture , edited by Jeanne van Eeden and Amanda du Preez. Each of these books takes a critical stance toward language, literacy, and culture and each is focused…
The Class Context of Temporary Immigration, Racism and Civic Nationalism in Taiwan
This article adopts a Marxist framework for examining the class bases of racism against guest workers in Taiwan, focusing on the legislative and administrative mechanisms adopted by the state to racialise and recompose the labour market and to politically repress immigrants, largely for the benefit of capital accumulation. It examines the ways in which racism against immigrants has constituted an important element of Taiwan's civic nationalism; a…
Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
The New South Wales Railway Commissioners' Strategic Pre-Planning for the Mass Strike of 1917
There is evidence to suggest that senior management in the New South Wales railway service pre-planned for the waged staff's withdrawal of labour in early August 1917, which preceded the mass strike. The aims of this strategic pre-planning were to break the power and resolve of the railway unions. The article examines two strategies adopted by the senior management; the stockpiling of coal prior to the dispute as a means of weakening the capacity…
Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
Preface PART I: DECENTRALIZED LEGAL AUTHORITARIANISM 1. Chinese Workers' Contentious Transition from State Socialism 2. Stalled Reform: Between Social Contract and Legal Contract PART II: RUSTBELT: PROTESTS OF DESPERATION 3. The Unmaking of Mao's Working Class in the Rustbelt 4. Life after Danwei: Surviving Enterprise Collapse PART III: SUNBELT: PROTESTS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION 5. The Making of New Labor in the Sunbelt 6. Dagong as a Way of Life P…
Ethnography, borders and violence: Reading between the lines in Satō Haruo'sDemon Bird
Satō Haruo traveled to Taiwan in 1920 and published the short story ‘Demon Bird’ (Machō) in the October 1923 issue of Chūō Kōron. The narrator of ‘Demon Bird’ imitates the style of an ethnographic report to tell his civilized audience about a custom of scapegoating in an unnamed ‘barbaric’ society. He offers an interpretation of this custom and recounts a recent episode of persecution. By his literary indiscretions, he also discloses his own posi…
The Labour Movement in Taiwan
Racial Conflicts in the Australian Automotive Industry in the 1950s: Production Line Workers, the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation and Shop Floor Organisation
Racial and xenophobic hostilities were not uncommon in the Australian automotive industry in the 1950s and southern European and other non-English speaking background workers often fell victim to s
The Pursuit of Serviceable Labour in Australian Capitalism: The Economic and Political Contexts of Immigration Policy in the Early Fifties, with Particular Reference to Southern Italians
The paper examines the class context of Australian mass immigration from southern Europe, particularly from southern Italy, in the late forties and early fifties. I argue that economic and political considerations were primary in the minds of the industrialists (especially from the automotive and iron and steel sectors), politicians and senior public servants who developed policy on the size and composition of mass immigration at the time. These …
Labour and Locality: Conference Report
The Class Context of Temporary Immigration, Racism and Civic Nationalism in Taiwan
This article adopts a Marxist framework for examining the class bases of racism against guest workers in Taiwan, focusing on the legislative and administrative mechanisms adopted by the state to racialise and recompose the labour market and to politically repress immigrants, largely for the benefit of capital accumulation. It examines the ways in which racism against immigrants has constituted an important element of Taiwan's civic nationalism; a…
The Labour Movement in Taiwan
Three raindrops and some dust’: Combining archival and GIS analysis to map the spatial distribution of the impact of the Federation Drought of 1895–1903 in rural New South Wales
The New South Wales Railway Commissioners' Strategic Pre-Planning for the Mass Strike of 1917
There is evidence to suggest that senior management in the New South Wales railway service pre-planned for the waged staff's withdrawal of labour in early August 1917, which preceded the mass strike. The aims of this strategic pre-planning were to break the power and resolve of the railway unions. The article examines two strategies adopted by the senior management; the stockpiling of coal prior to the dispute as a means of weakening the capacity…
Ethnography, borders and violence: Reading between the lines in Satō Haruo'sDemon Bird
Satō Haruo traveled to Taiwan in 1920 and published the short story ‘Demon Bird’ (Machō) in the October 1923 issue of Chūō Kōron. The narrator of ‘Demon Bird’ imitates the style of an ethnographic report to tell his civilized audience about a custom of scapegoating in an unnamed ‘barbaric’ society. He offers an interpretation of this custom and recounts a recent episode of persecution. By his literary indiscretions, he also discloses his own posi…
Labour and Locality: Conference Report
The Pursuit of Serviceable Labour in Australian Capitalism: The Economic and Political Contexts of Immigration Policy in the Early Fifties, with Particular Reference to Southern Italians
The paper examines the class context of Australian mass immigration from southern Europe, particularly from southern Italy, in the late forties and early fifties. I argue that economic and political considerations were primary in the minds of the industrialists (especially from the automotive and iron and steel sectors), politicians and senior public servants who developed policy on the size and composition of mass immigration at the time. These …
Racial Conflicts in the Australian Automotive Industry in the 1950s: Production Line Workers, the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation and Shop Floor Organisation
Racial and xenophobic hostilities were not uncommon in the Australian automotive industry in the 1950s and southern European and other non-English speaking background workers often fell victim to s
The Labour Movement in Taiwan
Ethnography, borders and violence: Reading between the lines in Satō Haruo'sDemon Bird
Satō Haruo traveled to Taiwan in 1920 and published the short story ‘Demon Bird’ (Machō) in the October 1923 issue of Chūō Kōron. The narrator of ‘Demon Bird’ imitates the style of an ethnographic report to tell his civilized audience about a custom of scapegoating in an unnamed ‘barbaric’ society. He offers an interpretation of this custom and recounts a recent episode of persecution. By his literary indiscretions, he also discloses his own posi…
Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt
Preface PART I: DECENTRALIZED LEGAL AUTHORITARIANISM 1. Chinese Workers' Contentious Transition from State Socialism 2. Stalled Reform: Between Social Contract and Legal Contract PART II: RUSTBELT: PROTESTS OF DESPERATION 3. The Unmaking of Mao's Working Class in the Rustbelt 4. Life after Danwei: Surviving Enterprise Collapse PART III: SUNBELT: PROTESTS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION 5. The Making of New Labor in the Sunbelt 6. Dagong as a Way of Life P…
Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
The New South Wales Railway Commissioners' Strategic Pre-Planning for the Mass Strike of 1917
There is evidence to suggest that senior management in the New South Wales railway service pre-planned for the waged staff's withdrawal of labour in early August 1917, which preceded the mass strike. The aims of this strategic pre-planning were to break the power and resolve of the railway unions. The article examines two strategies adopted by the senior management; the stockpiling of coal prior to the dispute as a means of weakening the capacity…
Multilingual Practices, Critical Literacies, and Visual Culture: A Focus on African Contexts
In this essay, we review and comment on three books that focus on language, literacy, and visual and cultural communication: English as a Local Language: Post‐Colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices by Christina Higgins ; Literacy and Power by Hilary Janks; and South African Visual Culture , edited by Jeanne van Eeden and Amanda du Preez. Each of these books takes a critical stance toward language, literacy, and culture and each is focused…
The Class Context of Temporary Immigration, Racism and Civic Nationalism in Taiwan
This article adopts a Marxist framework for examining the class bases of racism against guest workers in Taiwan, focusing on the legislative and administrative mechanisms adopted by the state to racialise and recompose the labour market and to politically repress immigrants, largely for the benefit of capital accumulation. It examines the ways in which racism against immigrants has constituted an important element of Taiwan's civic nationalism; a…
Three raindrops and some dust’: Combining archival and GIS analysis to map the spatial distribution of the impact of the Federation Drought of 1895–1903 in rural New South Wales
Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity and State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012
Ming-sho Ho’s new book Working Class Formation in Taiwan is an impressive work. Examining more than five decades of political economy in Taiwan between 1945 and 2012, it raises the central question
“We will never forget 1964!” Shopfloor Organisation and the Class Politics of Trade Union Officials at General Motors‐Holden
The article outlines the theory of contingent bureaucratic conservatism of trade union officials, which contends that elected officials represent a conservative stratum in the class struggle. The article also examines arguments made by those who oppose it, partly on the basis that it does not stand up to rigorous empirical analysis. The article tests the theory in the context of the important dispute at General Motors‐Holden's in Australia in Oct…
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa
Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately mined. Islands of Protest attempts to address this lacuna with this new selection of critically acclaimed modern and contemporary works in English.The anthology includes poetry, fiction, and drama, dr…
An introduction to the field of abundant economic thought
The problems facing the 21st century world, and the new technologies that have emerged to meet them, are harbingers of a new industrial revolution–Industry 4.0 (I4.0). The resulting information-based economy is challenging traditional economic thought, as evidenced by the appearance of “Abundance” as an economic philosophy. Abundant economic thought is relatively undeveloped. Here, authors help define the field of Abundance based on the possibili…
The 1913-14 Dryland Agriculture Strike in New South Wales
Unlike the USA States and Great Britain, studies of class struggle between landholders and farm labourers in Australian dryland agriculture, throughout colonial and post-colonial times, are almost absent. This article attempts to fill part of the vacuum. It analyses an important, though hardly known strike in New South Wales in 1913-14. It was initiated by farm labourers in wheat fields, by chaff workers in fodder paddocks, and by cart owners and…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Australian History and Society (3 works)