Industrial Relations in the New South Wales Building Industry 1850-1891

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David Kelly

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The Australian building industry is historically characterised by con-flict, co-operation and radicalism, and early building unionists were a driving force in the progressive labour movement. This is a history of carpenters, stonemasons and bricklayers in colonial N.S.W. organising against laissez-faire economics of the nineteenth century. It asks how building unionists maintained basic industry standards such as the eight-hour day and uniform pay rates in a competitive deregulated in-dustry, before the advent of the Award system, when unfettered mar-ket forces drove many workers to long days and low wages. Drawing from the struggles of the British labour movement and fo-cusing on the ideas of early radicals - from Payne, Cobbett and Owen, to Marx, Bellamy and George - this study provides a global and ideo-logical context to the operative builders of Sydney, and explains the way they ran their unions and the hopes they held for a better world for the working classes. Those with an eye upon recent Australian government initiatives to destroy building industry unionism and en-force competitive dynamics in the workplace will find both interesting parallels and counterpoint in this work.

Release date NZ

May 21st, 2008

Author

David Kelly

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

216

Dimensions

152x229x12

ISBN-13

9783639015690

Product ID

2527646

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