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Trade unions were first formed in Sydney and Hobart in the 1820s, with Melbourne and Adelaide following in the 1830s. These unions were craft-unions, societies of workers who practiced the same craft. They had small memberships and were dependent on the economic climate, often emerging during times of prosperity and disappearing again during recessions. These early unions focused on wages and on the eight hour day.

The 1880s bore witness to the formation of new industrial unions, which organised workers not by their particular craft but instead by the industry in which they were employed. Union membership peaked at around 200, 000 in 1890, but fell dramtically following the Maritime Strike of 1890 and the depression of that decade.

From this time Unions became increasingly involved in politics - forming labour electoral councils which gave rise to the Australian Labor Party. They benefited from the development of a system of industrial arbitration, and by the 1920s membership rates in Australia had grown to be the highest in the world.

Unions suffered during the depression of the 1930s, with the rise of Communism and the associated alarmist panic.

During the post-war boom a number of gains were made in working conditions, including equal pay for women. The 1980s witnessed the development of the accord between the Labor Governments of Hawke and Keating and the trade union movement through the Australian Council of Trade Unions. This agreement was used to constrain wage rise in exchange for greater levels of employment and social service. The ACTU also encouraged union amalgamation. During this period and subsequently union density has declined.

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Books

  • Industrial Workers of the World: Preamble and Constitution, Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago, 1908. [ | | Details... ]
  • Workers' International Industrial Union: Constitution and Preamble, Workers' International Industrial Union, Sydney, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rebel Songs: A.S.L.F. Song Book, Australian Student Labour Federation, Sydney, 1953. [ | | Details... ]
  • Be an Active Unionist, Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, Sydney, 1961. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Movement at the Crossroads: The Way Forward After the 1963 Elections, Current Book Publications, Sydney, 1964. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Little Green Book: The Facts On Green Bans, Tomato Press, Sydney, 1974?. [ | | Details... ]
  • May Day Song Book, Melbourne May Day Committee, Melbourne, May 1990. [ | | Details... ]
  • "Joe the Bear", Job Control, Workers' International Industrial Union & The Socialist Labor Party, Adelaide, 1928. [ | | Details... ]
  • Anderson, Norman C., One Big Union For Australia, Will Andrade, Melbourne, 1922. [ | | Details... ]
  • Childe, Vere Gordon, How labour governs, A study of workers' representation in Australia, 1923 edn, The Labour Publishing Company, London, 188 pp. [ | Details... ]
  • Council for Civil Liberties, Melbourne, Six Acts Against Civil Liberties, Council for Civil Liberties, Melbourne, August 1937. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gollan, Robin, Radical and working class politics: a study of Eastern Australia, 1850-1910, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1960. [ | Details... ]
  • Judd, E, E., The Case for the O.B.U., Executive of the New South Wales O.B.U. Congress, Sydney, 1919. [ | | Details... ]
  • Lane, E. H., Dawn to Dusk, SHAPE, Brisbane, 1939. [ | | Details... ]
  • Orr, W and Nelson, C, Coal; the struggle of the mineworkers, Central Council Miners' Federation, 1930s?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Patten, John, Ned Kelly's Ghost: The Tottenham I.W.W. and the Tottenham Tragedy, Kate Sharpey Library, London, 1997. [ | | Details... ]
  • Scott, Bon & Gary David (eds.), How to Make Trouble and Influence People: A Compilation of Australian pranks, hoaxes and political mischief making, Political Hooligan Publications, Sydney, 1996. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, Lance, The trade unions; communist theory and practice of trade unionism, Australian Communist Party, Sydney, September 1942. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Question Mark Collective, How to Stop Whining and Start Living, Scam Publications, Melbourne, 1998. [ | | Details... ]
  • Villiers, L. J., War on the workers, Workers' Press, Melbourne, 1918. [ | | Details... ]

Book Sections

  • Brodney, May, 'The speedy introduction of shorter hours; direct action, arbitration or legislation; classes for 1946', in The forty-hour week, Victorian Labor College, Melbourne, 1946. [ | | Details... ]

Cartoons

  • 'Non-Unionism / Unionism', The Worker [Sydney] (Sydney), vol. 6, no. 6, 27 February 1897, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]

Fliers

  • Organizations to contact concerning anti-war activity, information, or advice, Melbourne, 1968. [ | | Details... ]
  • We appeal for conscience on conscription – Release John Zarb, Melbourne, November 1968. [ | | Details... ]
  • Day of Conscience on Conscription for Vietnam War, Monday, November 25, 1968, Victorian Branch of the Metal Trades Federation, Melbourne, November 1968. [ | | Details... ]
  • Release Clarrie O'Shea, Melbourne, May 1969. [ | | Details... ]
  • All the way with Clarrie O’Shea/ All Out!! Against Penal Clauses, Revolutionary Action Centre, Sydney, May 1969. [ | | Details... ]
  • Wages in crisis, May (?) 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rank and File News Collective Invite you to a New Year's Eve Solidarity Party on the Picket, Rank and File News Collective, Melbourne, December 1998. [ | | Details... ]
  • Borders Workers Need a Union, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, 1998?. [ | | Details... ]

Journals

  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1934. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, May 1935, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 1936. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 1936. [ Image | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 1936. [ Image | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1936. [ Image | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sdyney, April 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, September 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, January 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, September 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, November 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Communist Review, Central Committee Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • International: a revolutionary socialist magazine, vol. 7, no. 70, Australian Section of the Fourth International. [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May/June 1969. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Left Review, no. 47, July 1975. [ | | Details... ]
  • Frontline: journal of the International Socialists, no. 5, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, December 1976. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Alliance, no. 1, Socialist Alliance [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, January 1994. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Alliance, no. 2, socialist alliance [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, April 1994. [ | | Details... ]
  • Baracchi, Guido (ed.), Communist: a journal for the theory and practice of Marxism, 1925-1926. [ | | Details... ]
  • L. L. Sharkey (ed.), Communist Review, no. 53, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, January 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • L. L. Sharkey (ed.), Communist Review, no. 55, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, March 1946. [ Details... ]
  • L. L. Sharkey (ed.), Communist Review, no. 54, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, February 1946. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, Lance (ed.), Communist Review 1946-1947, no. 53-76, Communist Party of Australia, Sydney, 1946-1947. [ | | Details... ]

Journal Articles

  • 'Australians fight coolie rates', The Australian author and artist: official organ of the A.J.A. Authors’ and Artists’ Section, vol. 1, no. 1, Authors and Artists’ Section of the N.S.W. District of the A.J.A.], Sydney, January 1947, p. 1&8. [ | Details... ]
  • 'Nine stone six wringing wet: Ted Bull retires -- end of an era on Melbourne Waterfront', The Independent Australian, vol. 4, no. 1, 1980. [ | | Details... ]
  • Gollan, R. A., 'Labor History', Bulletin, no. 1, January, 1962. [ | | Details... ]
  • Plews, Barry, 'Lawson -- lost and found', Bowyang, vol. 3, April 1980, 1980. [ | | Details... ]

Manifestos

  • Manifesto of the Revolutionary Workers Party (IV International), July 1943. [ | | Details... ]

Newsletters

  • Woman worker, Communist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], 1928-1929. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Comment, vol. II, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, August 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Comment, vol. II, Socialist Party of Australia (I) [This scan courtesy of the Socialist Party of Great Britain], Melbourne, June 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • Viet Protest News, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, December 1968. [ | | Details... ]
  • Oppression in Society - Freedom Day: July 4, Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament (AICD), Sydney, June 1970. [ | | Details... ]
  • Workers' voice; bulletin of the industrial committee of the Communist Party, vol. 1, September 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, Summer 98/99. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Autumn 1999. [ | | Details... ]
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, April 1999. [ | | Details... ]
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, August 1999. [ | | Details... ]
  • Ovaries Forever: IWW Sister Workers Newsletter 1999-2000, Industrial Workers of the World, 1999. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Summer 99/2000. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, Industrial Workers of the World, Winter 1999. [ | | Details... ]
  • Workers Solidarity: Publication of the Melbourne IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, May 2000. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, Autumn 2000. [ | | Details... ]
  • Workers' Liberty, Workers' Liberty, Sydney, November 2001. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial Workers of the World, 2008. [ | | Details... ]

Newspapers

  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 42, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 23, 1915. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 2, no. 40, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, October 9, 1915. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 125, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 9, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 124, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 2, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 121, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 12, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 126, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 16, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 120, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 5, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 123, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 26, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 127, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 23, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 128, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, June 30, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 129, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 7, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 130, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 14, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 119, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 28, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 4, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 135, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, August 18, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 1, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, December 1, 1921. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 131, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, July 21, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 122, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 19, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 117, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 14, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 116, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 7, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 118, Industrial Workers of the World, Sydney, April 21, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 114, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 115, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 24, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 112, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 10, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 111, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 3, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 113, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, March 17, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 109, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 17, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: Paper of the Industrial Workers of the World, vol. 4, no. 110, Industrial Workers of the World [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February 24, 1917. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action: An Organ of Industrial Unionism, vol. 1, no. 3, Industrial Union Propaganda League [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, February, 1922. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 3, no. 3, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, December 1970. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 6, no. 5, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, March 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 7, no. 7, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, June 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 4, no. 4, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, January 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Tribune, no. 1698, March 31, 1971. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 21, no. 21, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 9 June 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • SPA, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, April 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 25, no. 25, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 24 August 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 20, no. 20, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 22 May 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 15, no. 15, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 1 March 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 13, no. 13, Socialist Youth Alliance, Sydney, 17 January 1972. [ | | Details... ]
  • Battler, Socialist Workers Action Group, Melbourne, 1972-1974. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 50, no. 50, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 25 October 1973. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 47, no. 47, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 13 September 1973. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 36, no. 36, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 22 February 1973. [ | | Details... ]
  • Direct Action 43, no. 43, Socialist Workers League, Sydney, 28 June. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, May 1974. [ | | Details... ]
  • Battler 1976, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1976. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 7 November 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, Socialist Party of Australia [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 5 December 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • Battler 1981, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1981. [ | | Details... ]
  • Battler 1983, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1983. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Battler 1985', Socialist, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Action 1985, Socialist Action [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, Sep - Dec 1985. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Action 1986, Socialist Action [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist 1986, International Socialists [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Sydney, 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist Action 1988, Socialist Action [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1988. [ | | Details... ]
  • Socialist, no. 245, International Socialist Organisation, Sydney, January 1991. [ | | Details... ]
  • Front Line: Union Movement and Community Monthly, no. 49, FrontLine Publishing Board, Oct-Nov 1998. [ | | Details... ]
  • Voice: For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism, no. 14, Socialist Party (Australian Section of the Committee for a Workers' International), Melbourne, September-October 2001. [ images | | Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Woman's Suffrage', The Dawn; a journal for Australian women (Sydney), 6 April 1891. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Federating Australian Labour', The Worker [Queensland] (Brisbane), 7 August 1890. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Unionist or non-unionist', The Worker (Qld) (Brisbane), 1 October 1890. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'To Democratic Writers, Union Secretaries and Others', Tocsin, 2 November 1897. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'At last! A step forward. Militants form a left wing movement', Toiler (Brisbane), 1 December 1924. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'Reactionary Politics in Unions', Southern Advocate for Workers' Councils and International Digest, no. 87, J.A.Dawson, Melbourne, August-September 1947. [ | | Details... ]
  • 'The Tocsin's Platform', Tocsin, 2 November 1897. [ | | Details... ]
  • Clarke, W.J., 'Australian Trade Union Congress', Socialist Standard (United Kingdom), February 1933. [ | | Details... ]
  • Radical, 'A Plea for Unity', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 1 October 1892, p. 1. [ | | Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • Peace is Trade Unioin Business, Amalgamated Engineering Union, 1960. [ | | Details... ]
  • In memory of Jim Healy, sn, 1961. [ | | Details... ]
  • "I can get it for you wholesale!", Socialist Labour Party of Australia, Sydney, 1964. [ | | Details... ]
  • Women at Work, Words for Women, Sydney, 1971. [ | PDF | Details... ]
  • Towards a socialist Australia : how the labor movement can fight back : documents of the Socialist Workers Party., Pathfinder Press [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victora], Sydney, 1977. [ | | Details... ]
  • 35 Hours: More Jobs, More Leisure, Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union, Sydney, 1980. [ | | Details... ]
  • The Crabb Papers, Citizens For Democracy, October 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Conservation Foundation: Annual Report 1988-89, Australian Conservation Foundation, 1989. [ | | Details... ]
  • Dissenterlink Update: Linking Social Security Recipients, Industrial Workers of the World, Melbourne, 199?. [ | | Details... ]
  • Australian Conservation Foundation: Annual Report 1989-90, Australian Conservation Foundation, 1990. [ | | Details... ]
  • Anarcho Syndaclism in Practice: Melbourne Tram Dispute and Lockout January - February 1990, Jura Books, Syndey, 1997. [ | | Details... ]
  • Equal Pay means rate for the job, c1958-9. [ | | Details... ]
  • Unions warn: danger of total war, Sydney, c1965. [ Image | | Details... ]
  • What are these young people doing?, c1965. [ | | Details... ]
  • Arrowsmith, John, Abolish the penal powers: freedoms fight of '69, Trades Hall Council Administrative and Financial Review Committee, Melbourne, 1969. [ | | Details... ]
  • Brown, Rev. William T., The Labour Movement. Its motive, aims, and purposes.. [ | | Details... ]
  • Cambell, E. W., Historical background to the world labour movement, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, September, 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • Judd, E. E., Judd's speech from the dock, Socialist Labour Party of Australia, Sydney, 1919. [ | | Details... ]
  • Labor Anti-war Committee, Labor's case against war and fascism, Industrial Print, Melbourne, c1935. [ | | Details... ]
  • Laidler, Percy, , Ruskin Press [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1924. [ | | Details... ]
  • Liz Ross, Tom O'Lincoln & Graham Willett, Labor's accord: why it's a fraud, Socialist Action [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Melbourne, 1986. [ | | Details... ]
  • Lockwood, Rupert, Jim Healy: leader of the Waterside Workers' Federation, Current Book Distributors, Sydney, August 1951. [ | | Details... ]
  • Morris, William, Useful Work Versus Useless Toil, The Judd Publishing Co., Sydney, 1919. [ | | Details... ]
  • O'Brien, M, East of Suez, Australian Railways Union, Sydney, April 1966. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rathbone, Hugo, Australia Under Orders: Why our Wages are Being Attacked, Workers' Intelligence Bureau, Melbourne, 1930. [ | | Details... ]
  • Sharkey, L. L., An outline history of the Australian Communist Party, Australian Communist Party, Sydney, 1944. [ | | Details... ]
  • Temple, Frederick, War Finance and the Worker, Holland Print, Adelaide, 1916. [ | | Details... ]

Sound recordings

  • Kerin, Dave; Kuhn, Gabriel., The Return of the One Big Union? Syndicalism and the IWW in Australia and Sweden., Interview with Dave Kerin and Gabriel Kuhn, Reason in Revolt: Source Documents in Australian Radicalism, Melbourne, 27 November 2009. [ | Details... ]

Theses

  • Fry, E. C., 'The Condition of the Urban Wage Earning Class in Australia in the 1880's', Thesis, Unpublished, 1956. [ | | Details... ]

See also

  • Australian Labour Federation Platform, 1890. [ | | Details... ]
  • Rothbury: The 50th Anniversary, NSW Northern District of the Miners Federaion, Newcastle, 1979. [ | | Details... ]
  • McDougall, The Trend of the Ages and Other Verse [extracts], Labor Call Print, Melbourne, 1922. [ | | Details... ]

Created: 9 November 2004, Last modified: 29 June 2005