Activists in aggregate : collective biography, labour history, and the biographical register of the Australian labour movement 1788-1975

Andrew Moore, Yasmin Rittau, John Shields

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[Despite the solid – if occasionally polemical – record of research and publication in the biographical genre by Australian labour historians over the past sixty years, there are hundreds if not thousands of labour activists whose lives have remained un- or under-documented; lost, for all intents and purposes, to both the established scholar and the enthusiastic student. The Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement 1788-1975 represents an attempt to address these lacunae by publishing brief (300-700 word) biographical entries on 2,050 activists about whom we have been able to discover at least a fragment of information and whom we consider to have made a significant but hitherto un- or under-recorded contribution to the movement’s history at the national, State, regional and/or local scale at some point down to the mid-1970s.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationLabour History and its People: The 12th Biennial National Labour History Conference, Australian National University, 15-17 September 2011
    PublisherAustralian Society for the Study of Labour History
    Pages68-87
    Number of pages20
    ISBN (Print)9780909944100
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventNational Labour History Conference -
    Duration: 15 Sept 2011 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceNational Labour History Conference
    Period15/09/11 → …

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