The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. Australian Union History in Two Parts: Online Talk

Tuesday 18 August 2020
6:30 pm 8:30 pm 18:30 20:30

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Interventions, Australia’s only independent, not-for-profit radical book publisher, launches two new books on the Australian worker’s movement. Together they chart two pivotal periods in Australian trade union history.

'Without Bosses: Radical Australian Trade Unionism in the 1970s' by Sam Oldham gives a fascinating insight into radical currents in the period from the mass strikes against the penal powers to the green bans of the BLF. Without Bosses overflows with incredible and inspiring stories from a high point in trade union struggle.

'Stuff the Accord! Pay Up! Workers’ resistance to the ALP-ACTU Accord' by Liz Ross outlines how workers fought back against the attacks on their wages and conditions, their jobs, their unions and their rights. The Accord pitched worker against worker, destroyed two unions, oversaw one of the greatest transfers of wealth from workers to employers and gutted union membership and the gains of previous decades. This story of resistance, from the left and workers’ point of view, has not been told in full before.

Speakers: Liz Ross and Sam Oldham

MC: Alexis Vassiley. Alexis is a labour historian based in Perth, currently writing a PhD thesis on the Robe River dispute of 1986.

This event is hosted by New International Bookshop online on Zoom: https://www.facebook.com/events/695034268020644/

Registration is free:

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-tickets-114847929248?fbclid=IwAR164L7NSFuRkC9yNiDPBqAGaq_FuH8wz4h0sYNSMgY3C6fQGhjPVOpqdOE

Books are available to purchase during the event, and 24 hours after, with a discount of $10 for those who buy both books.

Buy ‘Without Bosses’ now: https://nibs.org.au/onlinebooks/2020/7/7/xwwwteb9moqdov9h576qhrdaphfs3h

Buy ’Stuff The Accord! Pay Up!’ now: https://nibs.org.au/onlinebooks/2020/7/7/jp5e1jl6y6lx27jfwkd31tukxdt3ke

www.interventions.org.au

Topic: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Time: Aug 18, 2020 06:30 PM Australia/Melbourne

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