Organisational Consolidation and Unionateness in the NSW Public Service Association, 1899-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2762124 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raymond Markey (0000-0002-7490-1042, corresponding author), Raymond Markey Raymond Markey |
| Year | 2010 |
| Issue | 99 |
| Pages | 97 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-6942 • E-ISSN: 1839-3039 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5263/labourhistory.99.1.0097 |
| OpenAlex | W2271290745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
The PSA is one of the oldest and most substantial examples of public sector and white-collar unionism, and its female activists played a leading role in the equal pay movement from 1914. Despite this, it has attracted little attention from historians. Sheldon's solitary article on the formation of the PSA characterises it as a 'middle-class' union, on the basis of public servants' social position, industrial conservatism, limited links with the labour movement generally and the PSA's non-political stance. However, the eschewing of strikes and overt political attachments were as much the product of the unusual legal and political position public servants found themselves in. Furthermore, on a material basis, whilst many white-collar public servants did enjoy a better position than ordinary workers, about half clearly earned working-class levels of pay. The circumstances of the 1920s and 1930s also brought the PSA closer to the mainstream of the labour movement, in terms of solidarity of outlook and a radicalisation of its world view. Its experience was a precursor of wider changes in white-collar unionism in the 1960s and 1970s
Civil servants · Conservatism · Consolidation (business) · Economics · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Public sector · Public service · Social movement · Sociology · Solidarity · White (mutation) · Working class · Australian History and Society · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2014 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |