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

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    Segal, Naomi
    Date
    2009
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Segal, N. 2009. Anti-union or pro-property? Worker surveillance and gold theft in Western Australia gold mines, 1899-1920. Labour History. 97: pp. 37-52.
    Source Title
    Labour History
    Additional URLs
    http://asslh.org.au/journal/about/
    ISSN
    00236942
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36730
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    Abstract

    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 first step in examining whether the umbrella body, the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia, in developing and operating a system for surveilling workers to prevent gold stealing, extended the surveillance also to workers it considered undesirable for political or industrial reasons, as workers feared. The paper investigates the emergence of the system of blacklisting 'undesirable employees' on the mines and the nature, the extent and intent of intelligence collecting and sharing by mine employers. However, as it was possible to access only a small fraction of the records pertaining to the surveillance operation (the remainder are still restricted), the paper's conclusion are only tentative.

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