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Union Effectiveness: Still Hidden From History?, Stewart Sweeney, Ingrid Voorendt
Union Effectiveness: Still Hidden From History?, Stewart Sweeney, Ingrid Voorendt
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
This paper provides a brief overview and critique of aspects of the Australian trade union history literature focusing on the fifty or so books in and out of print. The paper highlights a concern that the existing literature is singularly limited in its assessment of trade union effectiveness in pursuing their objectives in relation to union organising, union democracy, union action and union gains, let alone the role of unions in economic and social transformation. In sum, it appears possible to read much of the literature and still be left with little or no idea of what contribution the union …
Nourishing Labourist Culture: A Report On A New Left-Wing Writing And Reading Festival And A Discussion Of Its Antecedents, Nathan Hollier
Nourishing Labourist Culture: A Report On A New Left-Wing Writing And Reading Festival And A Discussion Of Its Antecedents, Nathan Hollier
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
In early 1998, Graeme Sparkes put a proposal to the New International Bookshop (NIB) in Melbourne, that a committee be formed to investigate the possibilities of holding a broadly left-wing festival for readers and writers. Sparkes, a teacher of English as a second language at the Northern Metropolitan College of TAFE in Collingwood, was a shareholder in the NIB. That bookshop, which replaced the old CPA International Bookshop in Elizabeth Street, was underwritten by a large number of small 'shareholders' and though housed in the Melbourne Trades Hall, remains a somewhat precarious financial venture. Sparkes' initial desire to base the …
Challenging The Agenda: The Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association And The Open Sub-Committee On Women, 1974, Rosemary Francis
Challenging The Agenda: The Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association And The Open Sub-Committee On Women, 1974, Rosemary Francis
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Ruth Fowler, an early convenor of the Open Sub-Committee on Women (OSCW), expressed the following view in the preface to a booklet written by Claire Kelly in 1986 entitled Women in the VSTA: The formation of the OSCW represented a watershed period in the union. It provided a supportive forum within the male cultural ambience characteristic of all trade unions, where women could discuss the issues which affected them as unionists and teachers and decide on possible policy. Whilst women were lone voices their concerns could be and were largely ignored. The OSCW, an officially recognised body within the VSTA, …
Dame Masons: Women And Freemasonry, Philip Carter
Dame Masons: Women And Freemasonry, Philip Carter
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
In an official history of the United Grand Lodge of England, we read: In 1921 an approach was made to Grand Lodge for recognition by the 'Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Masonry'; in a reply starting for obvious reasons 'Dear Madam' the Grand Secretary made it plain that the admission of women was utterly foreign to the original plan of Freemasonry to which English Freemasons had adhered from time immemorial. He added that the Board would continue to take disciplinary action against any English Mason who violated his Obligation by being present or assisting in assemblies 'professing to be Masonic which …
Sydney's Anti-Eviction Movement: Community Or Conspiracy?, Nadia Wheatley, Drew Cottle
Sydney's Anti-Eviction Movement: Community Or Conspiracy?, Nadia Wheatley, Drew Cottle
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
In the last week of June 1931, a doctor in a Sydney hospital was surprised by a seven-year-old patient whose crushed toe had been acquired in a novel fashion. The Sun reported: 'We was playin' evictions,' [the boy] fearfully told the doctor, 'and I was a pleecemanan' 'e' - pointing to another small and grimy boy - 'was a Communist. 'E threw a brick and it hit me on the toe.' Yelling at the top of their voices, a dozen small boys in Simons Street Newtown had staged a 'mock' battle between police and antievictionists. Swinging sticks and firing imaginary …
A Model Of Reading Practice In The Australian Labour Movement During The First Half Of The 20th Century, Sean Scalmer
A Model Of Reading Practice In The Australian Labour Movement During The First Half Of The 20th Century, Sean Scalmer
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
This paper aims to contribute to the growing field of scholarship that examines reading within the labour movement. However, unlike earlier contributions, which have focused on what is read rather than how it is read; on the nineteenth rather than twentieth century; or on specific individuals rather than common actions, the analysis presented here examines the dominant, distinctive form of reading that developed within the Australian labour movement during the first half of the twentieth century. I This reading practice is contrasted with an ideal type of bourgeois reading, as a means of illuminating what is particular and historically significant …
'Maids Of All Work'.1 Women, Voluntary Labour And Australian Red Cross Vads, Melanie Oppenheimer
'Maids Of All Work'.1 Women, Voluntary Labour And Australian Red Cross Vads, Melanie Oppenheimer
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Enid Singleton, from Belmore in Sydney's southern suburbs,joined the Marrickville Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in 1958. As was commonplace for young women of her generation, she had left school at fifteen and secured a good job at the Sydney County Council (SCC) as a cashier. However, she had always wanted to be a nurse so she decided to join her local VAD at Marrickville and become a voluntary, untrained 'nurse' in her spare time. Every Monday night, Enid travelled from her home in Belmore to Marrickville on the' 412' bus to attend classes. For six years, until 1964 when she …
Female Industrial Organisation In The Nsw Public Service Association (Psa), 1899-1999, Ray Markey
Female Industrial Organisation In The Nsw Public Service Association (Psa), 1899-1999, Ray Markey
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
The Australian historical literature on women's work and industrial organisation has expanded considerably in the last twenty years. However, historical studies of office work, a major employer of women, are limited in scope, particularly in the public sector. Where public service women have been referred to, it is almost exclusively in the Commonwealth sphere. Historical accounts ofthe Australian equal pay movement have also tended to concentrate on the role of the Teachers' Federation and the Federated Clerks' Union, rather than of public service (non-teaching) industrial organisations. I Nevertheless, from an early stage the NSW public service was a major employer …
Labour Historians As Labour Intellectuals: Generations And Crises, Terry Irving, Sean Scalmer
Labour Historians As Labour Intellectuals: Generations And Crises, Terry Irving, Sean Scalmer
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Over the last nine decades or so, Australian labour historians have been involved in a massive, ongoing, fractious, collective intellectual project. Together, they have written the history of Australian labour institutions; the history of class relations; the history of work; the history of community; the history of labour's political thought; the history of working-class culture; and the history of how class intersects with gender, race and sexuality. At various moments, the project has been criticised, defended, ironically eulogised, remade and recovered. It has been attacked as politically-motivated; theoretically underdeveloped; communistic; nationalistic; masculinist; naive; overly critical; overly celebratory; old-fashioned and intellectually …
The 'Anxious Class'?: Storekeepers And The Working Class In Australia, 1880-1940, Erik Eklund
The 'Anxious Class'?: Storekeepers And The Working Class In Australia, 1880-1940, Erik Eklund
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Outlining the shape of the Australian class structure between 1900 and 1914, Stuart Macintyre described minor professionals, storekeepers, and salary earners on incomes between 200 and 500 pounds per annum as the 'anxious class'.' This group were sandwiched between capital and labour, located just above the mass of wage labourers, and yet with the ever-present fear of falling back into the ranks of the wage slaves. The 'petite bourgeoisie', the 'lower middle class' or 'storekeeper class' have been the subject of considerable theorising and discussion. For example, theoretical debates raged throughout the 1970s and 1980s concerning the exact 'class position' …
Bernard O'Dowd And The 'Problem' Of Race, Frank Bongiorno
Bernard O'Dowd And The 'Problem' Of Race, Frank Bongiorno
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
So wrote Humphrey McQueen in 1970: and historians have largely accepted his contention that Australian nationalism and racism were inseparable bedfellows in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The aim of this paper is to explore the racial ideas of one radical nationalist intellectual of this period, Bernard O'Dowd (1866- 1953), who seems to be an exception to the McQueen thesis. Its object, however, is not merely to provide a sketch of the ideas of an eccentric man. Instead, I am pursuing a method advocated by the cultural historian Robert Darnton of attempting to understand the past by exploring …
From The Apennine To The Bush: 'Temporary' Migrants From Tuscan Communities To Western Australia, 1921-1939, Adriano Boncompagni
From The Apennine To The Bush: 'Temporary' Migrants From Tuscan Communities To Western Australia, 1921-1939, Adriano Boncompagni
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
This paper has three aims. The first is to examine the experiences and the spatial distribution of migrants from the Apennine mountain communities of northern Tuscany (Italy) to Western Australia during the inter-war period, in order to ascertain their expectations and objectives, and, consequently, to see whether they tended either to cluster in a specific number of areas or not. The second objective is to determine whether such migrants followed work patterns related to their original skills or whether they adjusted to the job market in Western Australia regardless of their skills. Thirdly, the paper investigates the place of Tuscan …
'You Didn't Admit You Were Hard Up': Working-Class Notions Of Moral Community, Leanne Blackley
'You Didn't Admit You Were Hard Up': Working-Class Notions Of Moral Community, Leanne Blackley
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Colin Warrington lived through the Depression period. He remembers: If someone was worse off than another family you would go and help them. You'd look after each other .... Everybody looked after each other. , ., For many working-class people, like Colin, helping people 'in bad circumstances' is an aspect of working-class life that they celebrate. It forms part of working-class collective memory. Anne O'Brien notes, in her study of the NSW poor, how help from the 'commun.ity - whether extended family, friends or neighbours' was a practIce endorsed because people recognised 'such a lot could easily be theirs'.2 Working-class …
Labour And Community, Past And Future: Or Why Merrie (White, Male) England And Mateship Are Not Enough, Eileen Yeo
Labour And Community, Past And Future: Or Why Merrie (White, Male) England And Mateship Are Not Enough, Eileen Yeo
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
You would think New Labour had invented the word 'Community', so often do the B1airites use it. A new' Active Community Unit' is being established in Whitehall, to spearhead Blair's challenge 'for Britain to mark the millennium with an explosion of giving of acts of community that would touch people's lives'l. Key Labour politicians have attended seminars on communitarianism, a rather authoritarian moralistic voluntarism, developed by sociologist Amitrai Etzioni in the USA.
Blue Singlets And Broccoli: Tradition And Change In Union Culture, Janis Bailey
Blue Singlets And Broccoli: Tradition And Change In Union Culture, Janis Bailey
Labour & Community - Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Raymond Williams once wrote that "the task of a successful socialist movement will be one of feeling and imagination quite as much as one of fact and organisation". Yet studies of labour struggle in Australia, past and present, emphasise the political, legal and strategic elements of campaigns, largely ignoring what might broadly be' termed the "cultural aspect" of struggle, or. if they deal with it at all, it is in a celebratory rather than an analytical way.) And while there are now many studies, particularly in Britain and France, of working class struggles that pay attention to culture, little specific …
Women Teaching For Social Change In Adult Education: The Spiritual And Cultural Dimensions Of "Teaching Across Borders", Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Women Teaching For Social Change In Adult Education: The Spiritual And Cultural Dimensions Of "Teaching Across Borders", Elizabeth J. Tisdell
Adult Education Research Conference
This study is an exploratory look at understanding how spirituality is renegotiated and informs the emancipatory work of a purposeful sample of women activist adult educators.
Parents As People. Problematising Parental Involvement Programmes., Lyn Tett
Parents As People. Problematising Parental Involvement Programmes., Lyn Tett
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper describes four case studies of parental involvement programmes and examines: the factors that enable partners to collaborate effectively; how the role of 'parent' is constructed; the contribution that education can make to combating social exclusion.
Poor Women's Education Under Welfare Reform, Barbara Sparks
Poor Women's Education Under Welfare Reform, Barbara Sparks
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports the effects welfare reform has on the educational development of 48 single mothers in the Midwest. Findings indicate academic tracking into low skill vocational training programs, the lack of knowledge women have about their rights under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and factors which contribute to low educational attainment.
Empowerment Of Rural Zulu Women Through Popular Adult Education In South Africa: A Case Study Of The National Association For Women's Empowerment (Nawe) Program In Kwazulu-Natal, Zilungile Sosibo
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper reports the study on grassroots Zulu women in the NAWE program. The purpose was to investigate whether the women were empowered. The research question was: Are the women empowered, if so, in what ways and how do they define empowerment? Methods of data collection included interviews, participant observation, and document analysis.
Learners' Perspectives Of The Train-The-Trainer Program In Creating The Role Of Classroom Trainer, Susan B. Slusarski
Learners' Perspectives Of The Train-The-Trainer Program In Creating The Role Of Classroom Trainer, Susan B. Slusarski
Adult Education Research Conference
Learners in train-the-trainer courses typically are presented with prescriptive content, yet the classroom setting is dynamic. This study examined the meaning participants in three train-the-trainer programs gave to the role of classroom trainer.
Missing The Beat: Adult Learning Through Religious Music In An African American Church, Michael L. Rowland
Missing The Beat: Adult Learning Through Religious Music In An African American Church, Michael L. Rowland
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study was to understand the ways religious music contributes to learning and meaning making for African American adults within American society. Retrospective biographies were used to understand how the religious musical experiences of African American adults affect learning. The findings of the study are discussed.
Themes Of Adult Learning And Development In Human Resource Development, Shari Peterson, Mary K. Cooper
Themes Of Adult Learning And Development In Human Resource Development, Shari Peterson, Mary K. Cooper
Adult Education Research Conference
This hermeneutic study explores the practices and philosophies of Adult Education and Human Resource Development, so that integrated communities of practice maybe created by understanding the ways in which adult education theory informs the field of HRD.
Women And Politics In Paraíba, Brazil: Participation, Learning, And Empowerment, Pessoa De Carvalho, Maria Eulina, Rabay Glória
Women And Politics In Paraíba, Brazil: Participation, Learning, And Empowerment, Pessoa De Carvalho, Maria Eulina, Rabay Glória
Adult Education Research Conference
Life histories of pioneer female politicians illustrate instances of learning and empowerment within gender cultures and imbalance in private and public life. After transforming their personal and family lives, independent female candidates face greater obstacles located in the political and economic structure.
Portraits Of Social Strangers, Steve Noble
Portraits Of Social Strangers, Steve Noble
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper discusses the use of art forms, as a way of "teaching and preparing" people experiencing life transitions. The study describes how a gay male graduate student experiences his own recent life shift alongside those explored by two recent immigrant women from Australia and Taiwan to Vancouver, Canada.
Re-Created Selves: Longitudinal Case Studies Of Meaning-Making By Women In Retirement, Vivian Wilson Mott Ph.D.
Re-Created Selves: Longitudinal Case Studies Of Meaning-Making By Women In Retirement, Vivian Wilson Mott Ph.D.
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this second phase of longitudinal research was to continue exploration of women's retirement as a mid and late-life developmental transition, particularly looking at the ways in which the ongoing reflection and learning continued to impact the retirement experience of six women.
The Role Of Cultural Values In The Interpretation Of Significant Life Experiences, Ming-Yeh Lee
The Role Of Cultural Values In The Interpretation Of Significant Life Experiences, Ming-Yeh Lee
Adult Education Research Conference
Researchers in adult education have investigated the phenomenon of meaning-making for decades. However, majority of studies mainly focus on the psychological process of meaning-making, rather than examining how contextual elements, especially cultural values, affect the process of interpretation. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of cultural values in the interpretation of significant life experiences as perceived by Taiwanese Chinese in the U. S.
Collaborative Ways Of Knowing: Storytelling, Metaphor And The Emergence Of The Collaborative Self, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Craig A. Mealman
Collaborative Ways Of Knowing: Storytelling, Metaphor And The Emergence Of The Collaborative Self, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Craig A. Mealman
Adult Education Research Conference
This study explores collaborative inquiry as a research methodology through an examination of the processes employed by the co-researchers. The paper describes metaphor and storytelling, two heuristics that assisted in the collection and analysis of data and discusses the role of the collaborative relationship in the construction of knowledge.
Changing Languages, Cultures,And Self: The Adult Esl Experience Of Perspective Transformation, Kathleen P. King
Changing Languages, Cultures,And Self: The Adult Esl Experience Of Perspective Transformation, Kathleen P. King
Adult Education Research Conference
Research was conducted among 208 adult ESL learners enrolled in college-based ESL programs. This study reveals that perspective transformation is frequently experienced in this context, and characterizes its nature. Implications for adult learning theory, education practice, and further research are discussed.
Adult Meaning Making In The Undergraduate Classroom, Carol E. Kasworm
Adult Meaning Making In The Undergraduate Classroom, Carol E. Kasworm
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study explored adult student meaning making in an undergraduate classroom setting. Five key frames of meaning structures were delineated, suggesting highly complex and differing understandings of expert knowledge and adult learning engagement through classroom learning.