| Description |
xviii, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Wollongong studies in labour and social history |
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Wollongong studies in labour and social history
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| Contents |
Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1. Industry and workers, 1788-1890 -- Convicts and bullock drivers -- The coming of the railways -- Rural carriers in the 1880s -- Urban carters and drivers -- 2. The pioneer road transport unions, 1883-98 -- Union formation, 1883-90 -- Road transport unions in the Great Strikes -- Disintegration -- 3. Towards a federal drivers' union, 1900-14 -- Arbitrations courts, wages boards and road transport -- Labor and the formation of the FCDIU, 1900-09 -- Radical challenges, 1909-12 -- Militancy on the wane, 1912-14 -- 4. Arbitraton and stagnation: From the FCDIU to the TWU, 1914-39 -- The advent of motorised transport: Its industrial impact -- Into federal arbitration -- Passenger drivers and the formation of the ARTWU -- Bureaucratisation -- The Depression -- Recovery and the formation of the TWU -- 5. Into the whirlwind: Transport workers and the Labor split, 1939-56 -- Economic prosperity and road transport -- Communism and the Movement -- The rise of the Progressives -- The battle for control, 1945-48 -- The Right ascendant -- Federal reform -- The Right divides -- 6. A period of transition: The growth of industrial militancy within the TWU, 1956-66 -- A new industrial climate -- Factional change and industrial militancy -- Common strategies and national disunity -- 7. An industrial pacesetter, 1966-75 -- The crisis of wage fixation, 1966-64 -- A new leadership: Division and disappointment, 1966-71 -- Wage leadership, 1970-74 -- Owner-drivers campanigns -- The end of the boom -- 8. The TWU at its peak, 1975-83 -- A hostile environment: Recession and the Fraser Government -- Internal adjustment and rebuilding -- Resisting section 45D: The Laidley dispute -- Owner-drivers: A second front -- Wage campaigns, 1978-83 -- The Accord -- 9. Transport workers and the Accord, 1983-92 -- The Accord in practice -- The Accord in operation, 1983-88 -- Industrial change and internal turmoil -- Union rationalisation and eterprise bargaining, 1988-92 -- Facing the future -- 10. Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
At a time when many features of trade union organisation are under challenge from economic rationalism and derefulation, Driving Force provides a timely reminder of the past failures of an unregulated labour market. Forced to regularly work in excess of fourteen hours per day in return for paltry wages, workers in road transport had established their own unions by the 1880s. Although prior to the 1950s the union's power was not used to great industrial effect, in the 1960s and 1970 the Transport Workers' Union of Australia emerged as the industrial pacesetter, seriously disrupting the traditional patterns of Australian industrial relations, as the union won unprecedented gains for its members. Now one of Australia's key unions, the TWU faces new challenges that threaten the very survival of unionism in Australia in its present form: enterprise bargaining and union rationalisation. Driving Force provides a probing and fascination accoun which will of interest to trade union members, labour activists and students of labour history and industrial relations. (Back Cover) |
| Analysis |
History |
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Labor unions |
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Transport Workers Union |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 223-241 |
| Subject |
Transport Workers' Union of Australia -- History.
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Labor unions -- Australia -- Transport workers -- History
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Transport workers -- Labor unions -- Australia -- History.
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| LC no. |
14003108 |
| ISBN |
1863733817 |
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1863733825 |
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