Labour Movements
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Ironworkers Speak for Peace
$40.00 Add to cartNational Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia
Sydney: National Council of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, No date.
Report of the rank and file members of the Ironworker’s Union that attended the 2nd World Peace Congress in Warsaw, Poland, November, 1950. -
Tom Barker and the I. W. W.
$50.00 Add to cartE. C. Fry; Tom Barker
Canberra: The Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, 1965.
Recorded, edit and with an introduction by E.C. Fry. Interview transcripts with Tom Barker regarding his work for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). -
The Development of the Labour Movement in the Sydney District of New South Wales
$35.00 Add to cartLeila Thomas
Canberra: The Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, 1962.
Being a discussion of the relation between the Labour Movement and current politics from 1788-1848 presented by the author as an M.A. thesis at the University of Sydney in 1919. The original thesis was missing for many years; this copy reproduced by The Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, Canberra, with the permission of the author, is a replica of a draft copy held in the Archives Section at the Australian National University. -
Woolloomooloo: Save The Loo Now
$100.00 Add to cartBrenda Humble
Sydney: Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development, 1976.
A record of the fight of residents and unions to preserve the working class residences of the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo that came under threat by developers in the 1970s. Includes a photographic record of many buildings, as well as resident reflections, protest chants, organising posters, and newsclippings from the time. -
Amalgamated Engineering Union Souvenir 25th Anniversary, 1920-1945
$50.00 Add to cartAmalgamated Engineering Union
Sydney: The Worker Trustees for the Amalgamated Engineering Union, 1946.
This copy signed by Union Chairman J. A. Cranwell. -
The Condition of Labour: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII
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19.5cm x 13.54cm. [viii], 195 pages. Red cloth, black lettering and decorations.
With an Appendix Containing the Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of Labour.
Spine cocked and discoloured. Minor tanning, particularly to endpapers. Previous owner’s name. Annotations. Very Good Condition. -
A Life
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
23cm x 15.5cm. xi, 343 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
Dust spotting to top edge. Minor general wear. Very Good Condition. -
Gender At Work
$10.00 Add to cartAnn Game; Rosemary Pringle
Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1984. -
My Descent from Soapbox to Senate
$190.00 Add to cartSenator Gordon Brown
Brisbane: Co-operative Press, 1953.
Gordon Brown was a remarkable Australian political agitator, who by his own admission had no time for “the dominating and dictatorial do-littles who claim superiority over the working plugs.” Having stood up for those “working plugs” his whole life, it was only reluctantly that Brown was convinced to write an autobiography. But, filled as it is with honest and unapologetic lessons on what Australia needed, then and now, he wrote an Australian political biography that is also a true national classic. -
Constitution and Rules
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First Edition.
14cm x 10.5cm. [8] pages. Lettered saddle-stapled wrappers.
Constitution and Rules adopted at a general meeting of members of the Country Milk Association of Brisbane held in Brisbane on Friday, 14th July, 1933, together with a list of branches and delegates.
Worn with vertical and horizontal centre folds. Some insect damage to edges and with a small hole at top of wrappers upper panel and first two leaves. Minor foxing and soiling. Good Condition. -
Industrial Awakening: A Geography of Australian Manufacturing, 1788 to 1890
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First Edition.
25cm x 18cm. xxvi, 846 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Slight discolouration and some rubbing to jacket spine, very small chips and tears to edges. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition. -
No Holds Barred: Hughie Williams: Olympic Wrestler and Trade Union Heavyweight
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First Edition. Inscribed by person(s) connected with book
25cm x 18cm. xii, 168 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed by Hughie Williams to Bill Carey.
Minor general wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Report of the Sugar Board of Inquiry, 1959
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First Edition.
33.5cm x 21.5cm. [ii], 48 pages. Lettered saddle-stapled wrappers.
Legislative Council of Fiji. Council Paper No. 26 of 1959. The report of an inquiry into the causes and circumstances of a dispute between the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited and the Fiji Sugar Industry Employees’ Association, largely over pay and working conditions.
Wrappers loose. Minor foxing and soiling. Crease to top edge. Fair Condition. -
No Holds Barred: Hughie Williams: Olympic Wrestler and Trade Union Heavyweight
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First Edition. Signed by Author
25cm x 18cm. xii, 168 pages, black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed by Hughie Williams to Maria and also signed by Murray Johnson
Minor soiling to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
Union Jack
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
21cm x 13.5cm. viii, 214 pages. Pictorial wrappers
Biography of unionist John Laurence (Jack) O’Leary and his involvement in the Australian Railways Union comprised from research from the archives of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, Brisbane.
Minor dust spotting to top edge. Near Fine Condition. -
The Soviet Trade Unions: A Collection of Background Materials
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First Edition.
16cm x 10cm. 232 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Scarce volume containing the basic Soviet laws and regulations dealing with the trade unions, in English. 6 copies recorded in OCLC at July, 2020.
Wear to wrappers, chipping to spine head and tail, creasing to tail fore-edge corner of front cover. Internally clean. Good Condition. -
The Labour Laws of Queensland 1922
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First Edition.
26cm x 17cm. xxxv, 778 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, blind rule.
Minor soiling to spine and edges. Moderate soiling to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
How Collinsville Was Won
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 40 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
Foxing, soiling, and tanning. Good Condition. -
Against All Odds: The History of the United Firefighters Union in Queensland, 1917-2008
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22cm x 14.5cm. xii, 156 pages. Full black bonded leather, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
Very minor foxing to top edge and jacket verso. Previous owner’s inscription. Very Good Condition. -
The Great Bust: The Depression of the Thirties
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24cm x 16cm. [iv], 418 pages, frontispiece, [8] pages of black and white illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
Jack Lang was the Labor Premier of New South Wales during much of the Great Depression, and was one of that state’s most controversial politicians, with his call to repudiate Australia’s debts. His long running dispute with Prime Minister Joseph Lyons ended with his dismissal in 1932 by NSW Governor Philip Game. The Great Bust forms the second volume of his justifications for his actions, while criticising Robert Menzies and others, including members of the Labor movement.
Soiling to cloth. Minor tanning. Previous owner’s name with label tipped in on title page. Good Condition. -
The Eight Hours Day
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First Edition.
19cm x 12.5cm. viii, 280 pages, 14 advertisements. Half red leather, gilt lettering and rules, blind rules on boards, green cloth.
An early history of the Eight Hours Movement (including Australia) and summary of available research with index and bibliography, which argues that a compulsory eight hour day should be introduced across industry. Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, (1859-1947) who co-founded the London School of Economics was a British socialist, economist, and reformer. He was an early member of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party for which he wrote ‘Clause IV’, which committed the Party to public ownership of industry. Harold Cox (1859-1936) was a Liberal MP from 1906 to 1910. He lectured on Political Economy for Cambridge University Extension Society. He later ran against the Liberals as he was against the idea of people getting something for nothing, although he thought the government should ensure a minimum standard of life.
Minor rubbing to leather. Minor rubbing to cloth on lower board. Foxing to endpapers and title page. A couple of minor annotations. Printed lyrics to Gilbert and Sullivan’s I’ve Got a Little List mounted to front pastedown. Very Good Condition. -
Amalgamated Engineering Union Souvenir 25th Anniversary, 1920-1945
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First Edition.
28.5cm x 22cm. [iii], 379 pages, illustrations, some colour. Green cloth, black lettering, no jacket.
Union membership card of Henry Francis Pooley mounted to endpaper and inscribed to him by a Union Chairman.
Very minor mottling to cloth. Very Good Condition. -
Cartoons by Claude Marquet (Memorial Volume, 1920)
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First Edition.
29cm x 22.5cm. 108 pages, black and white illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering, blind decorations.
With Commemorative Poems by Mrs. Mary Gilmore, Henry Lawson, C. J. Dennis, Roderic Quinn, and J. Le Gay Brereton, and Appreciations by Leading Publicists. Claude Marquet (1869-1920) was a self-taught Australian cartoonist, whose works appeared in the Adelaide weekly magazine, Quiz, the Bulletin, Table Talk, and the Melbourne Punch, but most notably in the Australian Worker, whose principles of worker solidarity he shared. This book was published for the benefit of his widow, after his untimely death in a boating accident.
Spine slight cocked and very slightly discoloured. Very minor rubbing to corners. Tanning to endpapers, minor to pages. Very Good Condition. -
The Workingman’s Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel
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Facsimile Edition.
18cm x 11cm. 225 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
An Australian Labour Novel. First published in 1892.
Minor foxing and tanning. Very Good Condition. -
The Line in the Sand: The long road to staff employment in Comalco
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. [xiii], 170 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Dust spotting to top edge. Very minor foxing to edges. Very Good Condition. -
The Jubilee Review of English Freemasonry in Queensland
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First Edition.
22cm x 14.5cm. 352 pages, 98 black and white plates, map, table, folded. Brown cloth, gilt lettering.
Spine creased. Water stain to inner back cover and a few adjoining pages, 2 pages of advertisements adhered at gutter. Tanning and foxing. Fair Condition. -
Vital Signs: Australia’s Collective Institutions
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First Edition.
23cm x 16cm. [8] pages, black and white illustrations. Quad fold.
“Political cartoons encouraging union membership; printed on white card, folded concertina-style. The word, “Union”, is spelled-out in cartoon figures across the concertina panels.” (from Trove)
Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Union Bashing and How to Beat It
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First Edition.
18cm x 12cm. 36 pages. Saddle-stapled wrappers.
Overview Australian unionism and its struggles in the 1970s against Malcolm Fraser and the new Liberal government.
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The Workingman’s Paradise
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Second Edition.
18cm x 11.5cm. 224 pages. Wrappers.
An Australian Labour Novel. First published in 1892.
Moderate tanning. Minor chipping to edges. Good Condition. -
Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 16cm. xvi, 219 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket.
Slightly cocked. Previous owner’s name, pencil marginalia. Minor to moderate handling wear. Good Condition.