Frontiers of Labor

Greg Patmore is emeritus professor of business and labour history and chair of the Business and Labour History Group and Co-operative Research Group in the School of Business at the University of Sydney. His books include Worker Voice: Employee Representation in the Workplace in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK, and the US, 1914–1939. Shelton Stromquist is professor emeritus of history at the University of Iowa. He is the author of a number of books including Reinventing""'the People"": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism.

"Two of the leading comparative labour historians in Australia and the U.S., Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, have joined forces to produce an outstanding edited collection comparing key aspects of Australian and American labour history. . . . Their volume is a fine example of the enormous benefits and promises that such a combined approach brings to labour history." --Moving the Social"The essays in this volume make a splendid contribution to the important fields of US and Australian labor history."--Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present"Historians cannot do experiments with history, but we can do the functional equivalent by way of comparative history. This excellent collection compares Australian and US workplace experiences. We expect the differences; these sophisticated labor historians also attend to the surprising extent of 'commonalities,' which seem to have grown over time." --Melanie Nolan, editor of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsUS and Australian Labor: A Comparative and Transnational Perspective Greg Patmore and Shelton StromPart 1. The Great War: Repression and Political CountermobilizationQuite Like Ourselves: Opposition to Military Compulsion during the Great War in the United States aWorkers against Warfare: The American and Australian Experiences before and during World War I VeriDomestic "Dogs of War" Unleashed: The Comparative Fates of Municipal Labor and Socialist Politics iIn Not a Few Respects, a Common History: Women, Wartime Lawmaking, and the Prosecution of DissentersPart 2. Varieties of Labor CoercionFrom Whips to Wages: From Coercive to Incentive-Driven Labor Jennie JeppesenUnion-Avoidance Strategies in the Meat Industry in Australia and the United States Marjorie A. JerrPart 3. Ethnicity and Class Identity: The Irish Diaspora in Australia and the United StatesCatholic Irish Australia and the Labor Movement: Race in Australia and Nationalism in Ireland, 1880Gatekeepers and "Americanizers": Irish Americans and the Creation of a Multicultural Labor MovementPart 4. Working-Class Collective Action and Labor RegulationCauses of Railroad Labor Conflict: The Case of Queensland, Australia, and the Northern US Plains, 18Comparative Mutinies: Case Studies of Working-Class Agency in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry RegimPart 5. Economic Democracy and Working-Class InstitutionsHow to Build a Trade Union Oligarchy: Guidance from the United States and Australia, 1886–1970 ScotThe Experience of Labor in the Age of Reform: Workers' Subjectivity, Welfare Legislation, and LiberControlling Consumption: A Comparative History of Rochdale Consumer Cooperatives in Australia and thPart 6. Transnational Working-Class PoliticsAnarchy at the Antipodes: Australian Anarchists and Their American Connections, 1885–1914 Tom GoyenAn Agitator Abroad: P. H. Hickey, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism in the United States, New ZealHarry Bridges's Australia, Australia's Harry Bridges Robert ChernyConclusion: Harvesting the Fruits of Transnational and Comparative History Shelton Stromquist and GContributorsIndex