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Unity is Strength: A history of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor Council in Western Australia 1899-1999

Unity is Strength: A history of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor Council in Western Australia 1899-1999

Oliver, Bobbie, 1951-
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WEST AUSTRALIANA Politics –

First Edition. Signed by Author. xii, 473 pages, [52] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. #210525

Unity is strength
1. 1899 Trades Union and Labour Congress and its outcomes 1899-1905
2. Labour Movement and State Socialism 1906-1916
3. ‘No one is big enough to break the labour movement’ 1916-1920
4. ‘For only by the OBU shall workmen’s wrongs be righted’
5. Unity, organisation and ‘continuous propaganda’ 1924-1929
6. ‘Engulfed in the maelstrom of today’ depression secession and unemployment during the 1930s
7. ‘The one outstanding man in Australia’ John Curtin and the state ALP1935-1945
8. Postwar deconstruction – party structures 1945-1950
9. ‘A vexed issue for WA Unions’ the creation of an independent Trades and Labor Council 1947-1963
10. ‘Dr. Evatt has split the Party the length and breadth of the Commonwealth’ – or was it Mr. Chamberlain?
11. Decline of a Labor Strongman 1963-1974
12. Trades and Labor Council 1963-1979
13. Fundamental shifts in power 1974-1982
14. ‘The best new leader in Australia’ Brian Burke and his successors 1983-1993
15. Industrial challenges for the Trades and Labor Council 1980-1999
16. New agenda for a new century.
Includes index. Bibliography: page 443-452.

Additional Information

AuthorOliver, Bobbie, 1951-
Number of pagesxiv, 473 p., [52] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
PublisherPerth : API Network, Australia Research institute, Curtin University
Year Published2003
Binding Type

Softcover
Book Condition

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