Labour/Le Travail articles from September 1996

Labour/Le Travail archives from September 1996

Comparative Labour History: Australia and Canada
September 22, 1996... THIS INTRODUCTION has several objectives. It defines comparative labour history and examines the various benefits and problems of research. It then looks at the comparative methods and examines how extensively labour historians have used a...

Nineteenth-Century Canada and Australia: The Paradoxes of Class Formation
September 22, 1996... SO DIFFERENT, yet so alike, Canada and Australia were central to the experience of 19th-century empire. Among the most successful of British colonial dominions, they shared a history of subordination that was itself premised on subjugating...

Gender, Race, and Policy: Aboriginal Women and the State in Canada and Australia
September 22, 1996... VERY FEW ATTEMPTS have been made to write international comparative studies of the history of colonial and national policies towards indigenous people. In the case of a comparison between Australia and Canada, such studies have the potential to...

Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980
September 22, 1996... ONE OF THE MOST important, yet subtle revolutions in the labour force of the industrialized countries over the past 100 years has been the increasing growth of female participation in formal wage work. The most significant and rapid changes have...

Immigration and Labour: Australia and Canada Compared
September 22, 1996... AUSTRALIA AND CANADA -- both countries built on successive waves of immigrants -- offer a useful point of comparison for exploring critical themes regarding the complex interplay among immigration, male and female immigrant workers, and the...

Workers' Welfare: Labour and the Welfare State in 20th-Century Australia and Canada
September 22, 1996... ANALYSING THE NATURE and effects of labour's relationship to the welfare state has been a vexed enterprise. On the one hand, labour has long been suspicious of the welfare state as a weapon to undermine working-class radicalism. On the other...

Rural and Urban Labour Processes: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Development
September 22, 1996... Introduction "MODERN ENVIRONMENTS and experiences," as Marshall Berman aptly stated, "cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of class and nationality, of religion and ideology." (1) It should not be forgotten, however, that...

Union Structure and Strategy in Australia and Canada
September 22, 1996... Introduction THE AIM OF THIS PAPER is to compare the experiences of Australian and Canadian unions during the 20th century. This comparison reveals many more similarities than differences. The similarities are best understood within a...

Labour and Politics in Canada and Australia: Towards a Comparative Approach to Developments to 1960
September 22, 1996... IF THE CONSTITUTIONAL bedrock of Canadian and Australian politics is quite similar, the institutional landscape has always been quite different. The most significant point is that the Antipodean labour parties were among the first and most...

Postscript: Comparative Research and the `New World Order'
September 22, 1996... I SHOULD STATE at the outset that I am not a specialist on either Canada or Australia and most of what little I know about their respective labour histories I learned from reading this volume. I do have an interest in historical comparisons,...