The paper explain how the Workers' Education Association's accomodation of apparently divergent imperial influences from the UK and the USA prevented a long-lasting compact between its labour movement and middle class membership. In the aftermath of World War ONe, conflict between the competing...

Scientific management has traditionally been closely associated with time and motion studies, payment incentives schemes and industrial efficiency. The following discussion reconsiders this portrayal by arguing that the combined effect of F.W. Taylor's philosophy, principles and methods made his...

The following discussion presents an alternate strategy for evaluating how F.W. Taylor's managerial innovations affected Australian workers during the second decade of teh twentieth century. This is no straightforward task. In the first place, there is little agreement about the nature, degree...

Industrial nursing has been rendered invisible in general histories of nursing and in historical treatments of occupational health and safety. This paper presents a preliminary effprt to rectify this historical ommission by restoring industrial nurses to their righful place on the front-lines of...

Community, locality, and personal identity are increasingly being recognised as important for the study of labour history. This is not to guggest that communities and localities were previously ignored. On the contrary, numerous studies of coal mining and steel making industries acknowledged the...

In 1854, a select committee of the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament met to consider what measures were needed to improve roads and introduce railways in teh colony. The same year, the Sydney Railway Company collapsed when the costs involved in constructing a railway line...