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The shearers' war : the story of the 1891 shearers' strike (1989) Stuart Svensen, University of Queensland Press. The shearers' war : the story of the 1891 shearers' strike (rev ed, 2008) Stuart Svensen, Hesperian Press ISBN 978-0-85905-434-8; Industrial War - The Great Strikes 1890 - 1894 (1995) Stuart Svensen ISBN 0-646-22797-1
After the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike both of which were long, drawn out affairs in which trade unions were defeated, running out of funds, actions by increasingly militant and desperate unions led up to perhaps the most violent shearers' strike, in 1894. [2] [3] Particularly due to falling wool ...
Part of the 1945-46 strike wave in the United States during the U.S. demobilization after World War II and the abolition of National War Labor Board restrictions, which contributed to the passage of the Taft–Hartley Act restricting union activities and strike actions. 1950 Austrian general strikes of 1950: Nationwide Austria: 1950
As the pound sterling went from US$4.03 to US$2.80, the Australian pound went from US$3.224 to US$2.24. [20] Relative to the pound sterling, the Australian pound remained the same at A£1 5s = £1 sterling. With the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, Australia converted the traditional peg to a fluctuating rate against the US dollar.
In 1886, the shearers began to organise themselves, [1] following a strike that had started at Wellshot Station and spread to surrounding properties. [2] The Queensland Shearers Union was formed at Blackall in 1887. [3] By 1890, the union represented almost three thousand workers, [4] and 3,721 were registered by the end of the year. [5]
1891 saw the Great Shearers' Strike at Barcaldine lead to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. The issue in the strike was whether employers were entitled to use non-union labour. There were troops and police called in, some sheds were fired, and there were mass riots. There was a second shearers' strike in 1894.
The Shearers' Strike Camp Site was the focus of the 1891 Shearers' Strike, a confrontation between capital and labour that was a major event in Queensland's history. The strike was a watershed in the development of organised representation of labour in Australia and the formation of the Australian Labor Party. [1]
World War II created a significant feeling of sympathy for the Soviet Union among Australian workers, and the CPA attempted to take advantage of this by industrial agitation after the war in the 1948 Queensland Railway strike and the 1949 Australian coal strike (the first time the military were used in peacetime to break a strike), and disputes ...