The labor movement is weak and divided. Some think that it is dying. But Julius Getman, a preeminent labor scholar, demonstrates through examination of recent developments that a resurgent labor movement is possible. He proposes new models for organizing and innovating techniques to strengthen...

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...

"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...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Collective Impulse, Mobilisation and Political Economy -- 2 Overview of Organisation, Methods and Patterns of Struggle -- 3...