'War conducted under certain rules, but nonetheless war': arbitration, capital and labour in the Western Australian gold mining industry, 1901-14

Between 1900 and 1914 state arbitration in the mining industry in Western Australia, was driven more by the mining employers and less so by organised labour. The process and outcome of centralised wage fixing reflected the different logics of the protagonists' collective actions, which arose fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Segal, Naomi
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35950