We have two new articles: one on Melbourne's socialist cricketers, and one on convict rebellions.
In addition we've put the whole book "Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History" on line (details below). Here is the link: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/interventions/ From the back cover of "Rebel Women": HERE ARE stories that challenge the conventional views of working class women and their struggles. Strikes and demonstrations throughout this century shatter traditional images of women as passive victims. Early in the century the women of Broken Hill fought strikebreakers with axes and broom handles. In the 1930s Depression, women played an important role in strikes and unemployed movements. During World War II they fought explosive struggles for equal pay, and after the War left wing women tried to hold the line on equal rights during a time of conservatism and reaction. The battle for equal pay revived in the 1970s, including a historic campaign in the insurance industry. For several decades, migrants have been a militant part of the labour movement, including the women textile workers at Melbourne's Kortex factory, whose classic industrial dispute is chronicled here. And in 1986, Victorian nurses waged the historic mass strike that concludes this book. The contributors, who write from a Marxist perspective, all have a long history of involvement in campaigns for women's liberation, in industrial struggle, and in writing about women's issues. Contents: 1. "Militant Spirits: The Rebel Women of Broken Hill", by Sandra Bloodworth. 2. "Brazen Hussies and God's Police: Fighting Back in the Depression Years", by Janey Stone. 3. "Class Struggle on the Home Front: Women, Unions and Militancy in the Second World War", by Janey Stone. 4. "Against the Stream: Women and the Left, 1945-1968", by Tom O'Lincoln. 5. "Equal Pay: The Insurance Industry Struggle,1973-75", by Diane Fieldes. 6. "Sweatshop Rebels: The 1981 Kortex strike", by Sandra Bloodworth. 7. "Dedication Doesn't Pay the Rent! The 1986 Victorian Nurses' Strike", by Liz Ross. . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
