"Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation. The author's 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and...

Reconsidering the collective impulse and the colonial context -- Law, the courts and inequality at work -- Overview of worker organisation, 1788-1850 -- Analysing the components of organisation -- Organisation in transport and maritime activities -- Organisation in the rural and extractives...