Peter Sheldon is a Professor in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia, Director of its Industrial Relations Research Centre, and an Executive Editor of its Economic and Industrial Relations Review.Sarah Gregson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia and Deputy Editor of Labour History.Russell Lansbury is Emeritus Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia.Karin Sanders is a Professor of Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia.

• 1. Michael Quinlan — intellectual journey of a scholar, teacher and policy expert 2. Rebellious Workers: Insubordination and democratic mobilisation in Australia in the 1910s 3. The West Gate Bridge Collapse: How disaster happens 4. Economic liberalisation of road freight transport in the EU and the USA 5. Precarious employment and the regulation of occupational health and safety: Prevention, compensation and return to work 6. Protecting ‘gig economy’ workers through regulatory innovation: Controlling contract networks within digital networks 7. Representing workers on safety and health: the current challenge? 8. Prosecutions under the Australian Work Health and Safety Acts: New sanctions, old approaches 9.Postscript: Inequality, deprivation/resistance and building a sustainable society

Peter Sheldon is a Professor in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia, Director of its Industrial Relations Research Centre, and an Executive Editor of its Economic and Industrial Relations Review.Sarah Gregson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia and Deputy Editor of Labour History.Russell Lansbury is Emeritus Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia.Karin Sanders is a Professor of Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia.

• 1. Michael Quinlan — intellectual journey of a scholar, teacher and policy expert 2. Rebellious Workers: Insubordination and democratic mobilisation in Australia in the 1910s 3. The West Gate Bridge Collapse: How disaster happens 4. Economic liberalisation of road freight transport in the EU and the USA 5. Precarious employment and the regulation of occupational health and safety: Prevention, compensation and return to work 6. Protecting ‘gig economy’ workers through regulatory innovation: Controlling contract networks within digital networks 7. Representing workers on safety and health: the current challenge? 8. Prosecutions under the Australian Work Health and Safety Acts: New sanctions, old approaches 9.Postscript: Inequality, deprivation/resistance and building a sustainable society

Peter Sheldon is a Professor in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia, Director of its Industrial Relations Research Centre, and an Executive Editor of its Economic and Industrial Relations Review.Sarah Gregson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia and Deputy Editor of Labour History.Russell Lansbury is Emeritus Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia.Karin Sanders is a Professor of Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour in the School of Management at the UNSW Business School, Australia.

• 1. Michael Quinlan — intellectual journey of a scholar, teacher and policy expert 2. Rebellious Workers: Insubordination and democratic mobilisation in Australia in the 1910s 3. The West Gate Bridge Collapse: How disaster happens 4. Economic liberalisation of road freight transport in the EU and the USA 5. Precarious employment and the regulation of occupational health and safety: Prevention, compensation and return to work 6. Protecting ‘gig economy’ workers through regulatory innovation: Controlling contract networks within digital networks 7. Representing workers on safety and health: the current challenge? 8. Prosecutions under the Australian Work Health and Safety Acts: New sanctions, old approaches 9.Postscript: Inequality, deprivation/resistance and building a sustainable society