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- Title
'To Organise Wherever the Necessity Exists': the Activities of the Organising Committee of the Labor Council of NSW, 1900-10.
- Abstract
Surprisingly little is known about the organizing activities of Australian unions. The conventional wisdom, in line with the "dependency thesis," is that unions have received rather than shaped their growth. The research presented here challenges some of the central assumptions of the dependency thesis arguing that the extension of unionism in New South Wales (NSW) in the first decade of the 20th century owed greatly to the agency of trade unionists and particularly to the work of the Organizing Committee of the Labor Council of NSW. This article outlines the committee's methods, motivations, and significant achievements in forming and recruiting into existing unions in the first decade of the century.
- Publication
Labour History, 2002, Issue 83, p43
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/27516882