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Title Peak unions in Australia : origins, purpose, power, agency / editors Bradon Ellem, Raymond Markey and John Shields
Published Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2004

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Description x, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction / Brandon Ellem, Raymond Markey, John Shields -- Ch. 2. Different roads to power: a comparative study of national unions federations / Chris Briggs -- Ch. 3. Beyond the 'will to unity': theorising peak union organisation and agency / Brandon Ellem, John Shields -- Ch. 4. The Labour Council of New South Wales, 1871-2001 / Raymond Markey -- Ch. 5. Product of a community in transition: the first Brisbane Trades and Labour Council, 1855-1888 / John Kellett -- Ch. 6. The industrial and political role of the Trades and Labour Council of Queensland since 1922: a reassessment / Simon Fry, John Shields, Brandon Ellem -- Ch. 7. The formation and role of an independent trades and labour council in Western Australia / Robbie Oliver -- Ch. 8. The Barrier Industrial Council: a study in local peak union origins, purpose, power and decline / Brandon Ellem, John Shields -- Ch. 9. Peak unionism in the Illawarra / Raymond Markey, Shirley Nixon -- Ch. 10. A podium for politics: the origins and role of the Rockhampton Trades and Labour Council and its predecessors / Barbara Webster -- Ch. 11. A fourth level council: the Wagga Wagga and District Trades and Labor Council 1943-1990 / Warwick Eather -- Ch. 12. Power and space in the Victorian Trades Hall Council / Cathy Brigden -- Ch. 13. The end of a cycle? The Australian Council of Trade Unions in historical perspective / Chris Briggs
Summary Systematically examines labour council's nature and influence at different times, in different places. The book adopts a unique combination of comparative method and conceptual insights from the fields of industrial relations, history, geography, organisational studies and political science
Analysis Peak bodies
Trades and labour councils
ACTU
History
Industrial relations (Australia)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index and bibliographical references
Subject Central labor councils -- Australia.
Labor unions -- Australia.
Author Ellem, Bradon, 1956-
Markey, Ray.
Shields, John, 1954-
LC no. 2005360503
ISBN 1862875308
Other Titles Peak unions in Australia : origins, purpose, power, agency