Anti-union or pro-property? Worker surveillance and gold theft in Western Australia gold mines, 1899-1920

Historically, both in Australia and elsewhere, employers often used blacklists to exclude unionists from their workforce. In Western Australia, workers in the first decades of the gold mining industry feared such an 'organised system of victimisation' as early as 1903. This paper is a firs...

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Main Author: Segal, Naomi
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History 2009
Online Access:http://asslh.org.au/journal/about/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36730