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Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007


Articles

  • Baby Farming in Western Australia: The Case Against Alice Mitchell, 1907
    Penelope Hetherington
  • The Origins of Mental Health Social Work in Western Australia: A Psychiatric ‘Re-conception’
    Marcia Foley
  • Compensating the Tubercular Miner: An Occupational Health Solution to a Public Health Problem
    Criena Fitzgerald

Book or other reviews

  • Penelope Hetherington, Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-Century Western Australia
    Natalie Lloyd
  • Bobbie Oliver, Unity is Strength: A History of the Australian Labor Party and the Trades and Labor
    Council in Western Australia, 1899-1999

    Frank Bongiorno


Building a Colony: the Convict Legacy, Jacqui Sherriff & Anne Brake (eds), 24, 2006


Book or other review

  • Roger Underwood, Tree Climber: The education of a forester
    Ken Spillman


History and Native Title, Christine Choo & Shawn Hollbach (eds), 23, 2003

Book or other reviews

  • John Bailey, The White Divers of Broome: the true story of a fatal experiment
    Christine Choo
  • Bill Bunbury, It’s not the money it’s the land: Aboriginal stockmen and the equal wages case
    Ann McGrath

Wordal, Jill Milroy, John Host & Tom Stannage (eds), 22, 2001

Articles

  • Towards an Aboriginal Labour History
    John Host & Jill Milroy
  • On the Freedom Track to Narawunda: The Pilbara Aboriginal Pastoral Workers’ Strike, 1946-1998
    Julie Armstrong
  • ‘We Were Proper Horsemen, Us’: Aboriginal Women – Workers of the Outback
    Beatrice Laufer
  • For Marbles: Aboriginal People in the Early Pearling Industry of the North-West
    Sumi Kwaymullina


Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999

Book or other reviews

  • Andrew Gill, Forced Labour For The West: Parkhurst Convicts ‘Apprenticed’ in Western Australia 1842-1851
    Peter Millett
  • Deborah Oxley, Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women in Australia
    Dianne Snowden
  • Andrew Gill, Forced Labour for the West: Parkhurst Convicts ‘Apprenticed’ in Western Australia 1842-1851
    Michael Sturma
  • Bill Bunbury, Timber for Gold: Life on the Goldfields Woodlines
    Mathew Trinca


Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997

Book or other review

  • Bill Latter, Blacklegs. The Scottish Colliery Strike of 1911
    Bobbie Oliver


Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Article

  • Choice or Chance? Self-employment among the Vietnamese in Perth, Western Australia
    Nonya Peters
Book or other review

  • Doreen Owens, Jardee: The Mill that Cheated Time
    Jenny Mills


Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Articles

  • Domestic Help: Daughters, Servants and Domestic Work in Western Australia, 1900-1960
    Ruth Barton
  • Making a Rural Labour Force: The Intervention of the State in the Working Lives of Nyungars in the Great Southern 1936-1948
    Sally Hodson
Book or other reviews

  • Leonie Liveris, The Dismal Trader: the Undertaker Business in Perth 1860-1939
    Bobbie Oliver
  • Don Munday, Tin Dog, Damper and Dust: A Shearer’s Life
    John Hirst
  • Pat Malcolm, First Cuts are Deepest
    John Hirst


Private Enterprise, Government and Society, Frank Broeze (ed.), 13, 1992

Book or other review

  • Charlie Fox, Working Australia
    Lenore Layman


Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990

Articles

  • Disputes, Diggers and Disillusionment: Social and Industrial Unrest in Perth and Kalgoorlie 1918-24
    Bobbie Oliver
  • The Midland Railway Workshops 1920-1939
    Kathy Bell
  • Marginalised: The Rural Workforce in a Marginal Area Farming District in the Interwar Years
    Jocelyn Maddock
Book or other reviews

  • Lenore Layman and Julian Goddard, ORGANISE! A Visual Record of the Labour Movement in Western Australia
    Andrew Reeves
  • Norma King, Daughters of Midas: Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields
    Raelene Frances
  • Papers in Labour History, Nos 1 & 2, 1988
    Tom Sheridan


Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989

Articles

  • Labour’s Annual Holiday: Eastern Goldfields Eight Hours Demonstrations 1900-1914
    Lenore Layman
  • The Opening of the Canning Dam
    Jenny Gregory
Book or other review

  • Carolyn Polizzotto, The Factory Floor. A Visual and Oral Record
    Charlie Fox


Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983

Articles

  • ‘Serfs of the Sodden Scone’? Women Workers in the Western Australian Hotel and Catering Industry 1900-1925
    Wendy Brady
  • Women’s Responses to War Work in Western Australia 1942-1946
    Gail Reekie
  • The Politics of Experience: Women in the Western Australian Clothing Trade, 1950-1970
    Christine Owen
Book or other review

  • C. T. Stannage (ed.), A New History of Western Australia
    Beverley Kingston


Bosses, Workers and Unemployed, Lenore Layman (ed.), 5, 1982

Articles

  • Richard Hamilton and the East Coolgardie Gold Mining Industry 1896-1927
    Anne Porter
  • The Kalgoorlie Woodline Strikes 1919-1920: A Study of Conflict Within the Working Class
    J. Murray
  • Segregation for Integration: Women and Work in Factories and Shops in Western Australia During the Great Depression
    Sally Kennedy
  • The Unemployed and the Labour Movement: the Western Australian Relief and Sustenance Workers Union 1933-1934
    Charlie Fox
Book or other review

  • J. P. Gabbedy, Forgotten Pioneers: Axemen
    Robert Pascoe


Convictism in Western Australia, C. T. Stannage, 4, 1981

Book or other review

  • Who Were the Pensioners?
    G. C. Bolton


Early Western Australia, 3, 1978

Article

  • Tradition, Environment and the Indentured Labourer in Early Western Australia
    T. W. Mazzarol
Book or other review

  • Justina Williams, The First Furrow
    Dianne Davidson


Studies in Western Australian History, 2, 1978

Book or other review

  • Max Brown, The Black Eureka
    Raymond Evans


Studies in Western Australian History, 1, 1977

Book or other review

  • Mary Albertus Bain, Ancient Landmarks
    Tom Stannage