Australian Political Strikes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2764665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sondra Silverman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 28 |
| Publication date | 1966-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/27507842 |
| OpenAlex | W2325620113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
While most trade unions do want to bring about changes in society, they are content to win measures of reform while playing the game of government according to the conventions and laws upon which democratic capitalism operates. In Australian practice, this requires that industrial action be used for particular kinds of purposes, that the unions rely upon legal means to secure their demands, that they respect the judgment of the authorities on matters of government policy, and that they abide by the established arbitration system. By accepting some kind of respon sibility for the efficient functioning of the capitalist economy, trade unions operate on a standard of law-abidingness. They use normal democratic methods of persuasion to present their demands. While they do not rule out the use of direct action, only in a minority of instances do they use, or even threaten to use, as an arguing point their prime source of strength ?the withdrawal of their labour
Action (physics) · Arbitration · Democracy · Direct action · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Law and economics · Market economy · Persuasion · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2022 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |