Organising Union
Transport Workers Face the Challenge of Change, 1989-2013
$46.99
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
6 March 2017
Summary
Between 1989 and 2013 every industry sector covered by the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales was utterly transformed by processes of globalisation and technological and market change. Large players consumed small firms; in turn, the bigger companies were often acquired by global players.The lesson that emerges from Organising Union is simple- the value of solidarity. In 2001 redundant Ansett workers were told they would never see their entitlements. In 2006 Tooheys owner-drivers were…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522871258 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522871259 |
| Author: | Mark Hearn |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 395g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Mark Hearn
Mark Hearn is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University. He has published widely in the ?eld of Australian history and contributed opinion pieces on Australian politics and history to the press. He was a co-editor of Rethinking Work- Time Space Discourse, published by Cambridge University Press (2006). From 2002 to 2005 he was a sesquicentenary post-doctoral fellow in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. In 2014-15 he was an Australian Prime Ministers’ Centre fellow at the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra.
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