Reconsidering the collective impulse and the colonial context -- Law, the courts and inequality at work -- Overview of worker organisation, 1788-1850 -- Analysing the components of organisation -- Organisation in transport and maritime activities -- Organisation in the rural and extractives...

"Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation. The author's 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Collective Impulse, Mobilisation and Political Economy -- 2 Overview of Organisation, Methods and Patterns of Struggle -- 3...

The paper shows how redundancies were resisted by Hi-Tech workers in a large German company. It details an employee network’s emergence to provide support to individuals and to pursue legal cases against the company, and analyzes the network’s norms and operation. The network operated in...