Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Jim Hagan and Andrew Wells -- -- Bob Gollan: An Appreciation -- Eric Fry -- -- The Political Context of Labour History: Then and Now -- Bob Gollan -- -- The Present State of Labour History -- Stuart Macintyre -- -- The Impact of Gender Analysis on Australian Labour Historiography -- Rae Frances -- -- Aborigines in Labour History -- Andrew Markus -- -- Australian Trade Union History 1962-1996, and After -- Jim Hagan -- -- Comparative Regional Labour History: Some Preliminary Observations -- Andrew Wells -- -- Doing Comparative Labour History: Some Essential Preliminaries -- Marcel van der Linden -- -- The Indonesian Labour Movement Re-emerges -- Nico Warouw and Helen Jarvis -- -- 'Unions' in Asia ? -- Michael Hess -- -- Bibliography -- Marcel van der Linden