The 1908 wood line strikes in Western Australia: causes and consequences

Segal, Naomi

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Segal, Naomi

Date

2011

Type

Conference Paper

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Segal, N. 2011. The 1908 wood line strikes in Western Australia: causes and consequences, in Kevin Voges and Bob Cavana (ed), 25th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Dec 5 2011. Wellington, New Zealand: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference.

Source Title

Proceedings of the 25th annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference

Source Conference

25th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference

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978-1-877040-87-0

School

School of Management

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62269

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

This paper examines the 1908 wood line strikes in Western Australia and the role of Southern European workers in these strikes within the context of Honneth’s theory of mobilisation. The paper argues against established views of these workers which perceive them as passive participants in culturally divisive anti-union employer strategies and for an alternative evidentiary and theoretical basis for interpreting Southern European worker-employer relations as well as relations within the culturally diverse industrial workforce of the Western Australian goldfields in the early 20th Century.