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US and Australian Labor: A Comparative and Transnational Perspective Greg Patmore and Shelton Strom
Part 1. The Great War: Repression and Political Countermobilization
Quite Like Ourselves: Opposition to Military Compulsion during the Great War in the United States a
Workers against Warfare: The American and Australian Experiences before and during World War I Veri
Domestic “Dogs of War” Unleashed: The Comparative Fates of Municipal Labor and Socialist Politics i
In Not a Few Respects, a Common History: Women, Wartime Lawmaking, and the Prosecution of Dissenters
Part 2. Varieties of Labor Coercion
From Whips to Wages: From Coercive to Incentive-Driven Labor Jennie Jeppesen
Union-Avoidance Strategies in the Meat Industry in Australia and the United States Marjorie A. Jerr
Part 3. Ethnicity and Class Identity: The Irish Diaspora in Australia and the United States
Catholic Irish Australia and the Labor Movement: Race in Australia and Nationalism in Ireland, 1880
Gatekeepers and “Americanizers”: Irish Americans and the Creation of a Multicultural Labor Movement
Part 4. Working-Class Collective Action and Labor Regulation
Causes of Railroad Labor Conflict: The Case of Queensland, Australia, and the Northern US Plains, 18
Comparative Mutinies: Case Studies of Working-Class Agency in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regim
Part 5. Economic Democracy and Working-Class Institutions
How to Build a Trade Union Oligarchy: Guidance from the United States and Australia, 1886–1970 Scot
The Experience of Labor in the Age of Reform: Workers’ Subjectivity, Welfare Legislation, and Liber
Controlling Consumption: A Comparative History of Rochdale Consumer Cooperatives in Australia and th
Part 6. Transnational Working-Class Politics
Anarchy at the Antipodes: Australian Anarchists and Their American Connections, 1885–1914 Tom Goyen
An Agitator Abroad: P. H. Hickey, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism in the United States, New Zeal
Harry Bridges’s Australia, Australia’s Harry Bridges Robert Cherny
Conclusion: Harvesting the Fruits of Transnational and Comparative History Shelton Stromquist and G
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