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Division of labour: industrial relations in the Chifley years, 1945-49

Tom Sheridan 1989 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780195549614 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Australasian/Oceanian
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page vii)
  • List of tables (page ix)
  • List of abbreviations (page x)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 The setting (page 5)
  • 2 Ben Chifley: background, character and approach (page 18)
  • 3 The government, the economy and the labour market (page 30)
  • 4 The unions (page 53)
  • 5 Private-sector employers (page 75)
  • 6 The opening salvos: NSW steel and Queensland meat (page 89)
  • 7 Hours and wages: the '40 years' case and the margins war (page 125)
  • 8 Federal arbitration: reform, personnel and sanctions (page 149)
  • 9 Victoria and Queensland 1947-49: getting tough with the unions (page 181)
  • 10 The Communist Party and industrial relations (page 225)
  • 11 Regulating market forces: the run-in to the 1949 coal strike (page 248)
  • 12 'Boots and all': Mr Chifley and the miners (page 291)
  • Conclusions (page 317)
  • Notes (page 322)
  • Bibliography (page 373)
  • Index (page 387)
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BHR 66.4 (Winter 1992): 832-833 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-6805%28199224%2966%3A4%3C832%3ADOLIRI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
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