"Automated mechanical shearing: predevelopment feasibility analysis"- Wool Harvesting Unit, Australian Wool Corporation, 1983shearing sheep stations - management agriculture - industrial relations animal welfare woolclassing wool marketing, australian wool board - wool harvesting research committee, wool clip contamination, shearing, sheep stations - management, agriculture - industrial relations, animal welfare, woolclassing, wool marketing

"Time means tucker: a shearer's reminiscences" - H P "Duke" Tritton, The Bulletin, 1959shearing labour movement - australia sheep stations - history agricultural shows agriculture - industrial relations pastoral industry - history, tritton, mr h. p., shearing, labour movement - australia, sheep stations - history, agricultural shows, agriculture - industrial relations, pastoral industry - history

History of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) from 1920-1945. The AEU existed between 1852 to 1973.Relevant to the history of trade unions in Australia, especially the Amalgamated Engineering Union.Hardcover book, blue cloth with navy blue lettering. Front cover: title, organisation name and address.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, amalgamated engineering union, unions, industrial relations, aeu, union history

Labour history of Ballarat from 1892 to 2006. Significant to the history and growth of the labour movement in Ballarat.Paper; book; 321 pagesbtlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, gold, alp, australian labor party, elections, politicians, working classes, workplace relations, industrial relations, politics, government

History of the AWU which was formed in 1886. Shows AWU's role in strike actions (including the 1890s), opposition to conscription and the 1950s Labor split.Relevant to the history of the Australian Labor Party, Australian trade unions, National AWU, industrial relations and conscription.Paper; book. Front cover: yellow and blue background; picture of Australian Workers Union banner; white text.Front cover: authors' names and title; AWU name and slogan on the banner picture.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, australian labor party, alp, awu, australian workers union, industrial relations, strikes, unions, conscription, alp split

This book explores the choices employers have made and the reasons behind those choices in the context of the national economy, global meat trade and period of severe booms and busts.Relevant to industrial relations and the Australian and global meat trade.Paper; book. Front cover: Purple and white background; colour picture of meat worker at work.Front cover: author name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, meat industry, employers, globalisation, economy, australasian meat industry employees' union, meat industry and trade -- australia, employee relations, exports

A cartoon history of the 1998 waterfront dispute.Relevant to the history of unions (especially the MUA) and industrial relations.Paper; book. Cover: black and white; cartoon on the front cover.Front cover: editor, author of foreword and title.ballarat trades hall, ballarat regional trades and labour council, btlc, waterfront workers, waterfront dispute 1998, mua, maritime workers' strike, maritime union australia, unions, industrial relations, strikes

100 years' history of the Geelong Trades Hall.Relevant to the history and achievements of the union movement in Australia, particularly in the Geelong area. Launched in 2011.Paper; book; CD-Rom Front cover: full-colour photograph of Trades Hall building; black and white text. Back cover: blue background; colour portrait photograph of the author; white text.Front cover: author's name and title. Back cover: author biography.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, geelong trades hall, history, centenary, unions, regional trades and labour councils, industrial relations

Commissioned by the Kennett government in 2000. The findings of this report intimate that deregulation of the labour market impacts adversely and inequitably upon workers who are already have unfavourable outcomes from the current system. This is volume 2 of a two volume report. Volume 1 (object B0446) is also held. Vol 1 - survey findings. Vol 2 - Analysis of labour force data.Relevant to history of modern industrial relations in Australia.Paperback. Front cover: background; white lettering.Front cover: title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat regional trades and labour council, victorian industrial relations taskforce, victorian state government, statistics, labour market - deregulation

Commissioned by the Kennett government in 2000. The findings of this report intimate that deregulation of the labour market impacts adversely and inequitably upon workers who are already have unfavourable outcomes from the current system. This is volume 1 of a two volume report. Volume 1 (object B0446) is also held. Vol 1 - survey findings. Vol 2 - Analysis of labour force data.Relevant to history of industrial relations in Australia.Paperback - brown cover, title in white lettering.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat regional trades and labour council, victorian industrial relations taskforce, victorian state government, statistics, labour market - deregulation

The award and certified agreement was negotiated between the employer and party unions. It was certified by Commissioner Simmonds on 20 January 1998. The document was expected to expire in 2001.Relates to rights and entitlements for Tenix workers. Pre-WorkChoices agreement (1998-2001).PaperbackTitle and name of applicable company printed on the front cover. Company name also printed on the back cover.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council;, ballarat trades hall, unions, awards, australian industrial relations commission, tenix defence systems, afmeu, cepu, awu, certified agreements - enterprise agreements

Australian politics in the 1980s and the consequences. Includes: - Hawke-Keating leadership; - 1990s recession; - ALP leadership coup; - deregulation of financial systems; - John Hewson's bid for the prime ministership; - rivalry between John Howard and Andrew Peacock; - John Elliott's push for Liberal Party leadership; - Joh for PM campaign; - industrial relations and the Accord. Politics, industrial relations, economy and leadership issues.Book; 755 pages. Cover: red and purple background; photographs of Bill Kelty, Bob Hawke, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Elliott, John Howard, Paul Keating and John Hewson; white lettering; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, politics and government, prime ministers - australia, political parties, hawke, bob, premiers - bjelke-petersen, joh, elliott, john, kelty, bill, howard, john, keating, paul, peacock, andrew, hewson, john, economy - australia, actu, anthony, doug, country party, liberal party australia, national party, immigration, industrial relations, alp, australian labor party, trade unions, white australia policy, accord

The author documents and analyses case studies of eleven strikes and lockouts from 1911 to 1968.Relevant to the history of the labor movement and industrial action in Australia.Paper; book. Front cover: white background; black and white image of a strike rally; red and black lettering.Front cover: editors' names and title.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, history, strikes, industrial relations, industrial action, unions, lockouts

A history of the AMWU. The AWMU is an Australian trade union that was part of campaigns for the Eight Hour Day, maternity leave, superannuation, apprentice rights and family-friendly conditions. 1.The AMWU: Politics and Industrial Relations, 1852-2012 /​ Greg Patmore 2.The Hope of the World: The Amalgamation of ADSTE and the AMWU /​ Andrew Dettmer 3.One Big Metal Union? The Impact of Union Amalgamation in Western Australia /​ Bobbie Oliver 4.Off to the Mystery Picnic: Mobilising Young Engineers in Victoria, 1941-1961 /​ Keir Reeves 5.The Female Confectioners Union, 1916-1945 /​ Cathy Brigden 6.The Melbourne Typographical Society and the Melbourne Trades and Labour Council, 1874-76 /​ Andrew Reeves 7.Australia Reconstructed /​ Andrew Scott 8.Celebration of a Union: The Banners and Iconography of the AMWU /​ Andrew Reeves pt. 2 AMWU People 9.The Struggle Continues: Laurie Carmichael Talks /​ Andrew Dettmer 10.Three Tassie Women and Their Union Experiences /​ Robyn McQueeney 11.`Red' Fred - Left in the Right Time and Place: A Political Analysis of Fred Thompson /​ Cora Trevarthen 12.Unity Commands Respect: Memories of EZ /​ Glenys Lindner 13.A Self-contained City: Metalworkers and the Midland Railway Workshops, 1904-1994 /​ Ric McCracken 14.The AMWU Queensland Coal Shop Stewards /​ Chris Harper. Relevant to the history of trade unions and the labour movement, particularly the AWMU.Paper; book. Front cover: sepia background - feint pictures; colour picture of union banner; red and black lettering. Front cover: title and editors' names.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, unions, amwu, australian manufacturing workers union, history, amalgamated metal workers' and shipwrights' union, social conditions, labor movement, amalgamations - unions, industrial relations

An oral history: interviews with working and unemployed men and women across many industries. Includes interviews across rural and urban Australia. A companion book to Weevils in the Flour. Relevant to Australian workplace issues.Paper; book. Front cover: green background; colour picture of urban industrial area with smoking chimneys; yellow and white lettering.Front cover: title and author's name.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, oral history, workplace relations, unemployment, employment, interviews, rural people, urban people, weevils in the flour

A documentary about the Australian Building Construction Commission which was a coercive regulatory body empowered to investigate and prosecute breaches of industrial relations laws. It was created to particularly target strong building unions. Penalties imposed by the ABCC were severe - for example, terms of imprisonment and individual fines of up to $28,500 for failure to comply with summonses, refusal to answer questions, and disclosure to others of anything that happened at ABCC's closed tribunal. ABCC was disbanded in 2012, but the Turnbull Coalition government has attempted to revive the organisation in 2016. The failure to obtain Senate approval triggered the double-dissolution of Federal parliament and subsequent election in July 2016.Relevant to the history of unions and industrial relations in Australia. Also relates to government union relations.DVD Front cover: colour picture of a lawyer in court regalia and a howling dog; black and yellow lettering.Front cover: title and maker's name.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, abcc, australian building construction commission, unions, building unions, industrial relations, industrial tribunals, politics and government, howard, john, liberal party australia, cfmeu, cfmeu mining and energy division

The ACTU National Day of Protest was held in November 2005 in opposition to the Howard Coalition government's proposed WorkChoices legislation. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the rallies.Relevant to workplace rights and trade union activism.DVDbtlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, actu, national day of protest, workchoices, howard, john, liberal party australia, industrial relations, unions, activism, rallies, legislation

"Jobs you can count on" campaign focussed on job insecurity and the growth of casual labour in Australia. The film can also be found at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_aywx9S-ARelevant to unions and their industrial campaigns.DVDbtlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, industrial relations, nuw, national union of workers, casualisation, job security, union campaigns, unions, jobs

Collected essays by various authors - industrial relations. Particular focus upon: employers and management; trade unions; methods of regulation; industrial conflict; theoretical approaches.Unionism, industrial relations and employment relationships.Paper; book. Front cover: green background; black and white picture of people sitting around a meeting table.Title page: D.J. Spiers, Ballaarat University College, May 1992 In black ink. Front cover: editors' names and title.ballarat trades and labour council, btlc, industrial relations, trade unions, industrial action, employment, enterprise bargaining

Debunks long-held myths about aggressiveness of trade unionism. Essentially a book about what unions are and what they do.Relevance to anecdotal history of unions.Book. Dymo label, 'DJ SPIERS', attached to the front cover. Author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, industrial relations, unions

Approaches current (1997) employment relations in Australia comparative to other countries (especially the United States and European nations). Note: this book was published one year after the Coalition (National and Liberal parties) returned to government in Australia and is therefore written before the enactment of the WorkChoices legislation and the subsequent Fair Work Act. Includes commentary about the likely future of industrial relations. The authors provide analysis around the following industries: automative; banking; information technology; Australian steel; and telecommunications.Industrial relations in the 1990s. Book; paperback.Front cover: editors' names and title. Title page: in black ink, "D.J. Spiers, University of Ballarat, April 1997".btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, industrial relations, workplace relations act, automative industry, banking, information technology, steel, telecommunications

Several authors explore practical alternatives to the Australian industrial arbitration system. Based on papers commissioned by the Hancock Committee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_ReportBook.Front cover: author's name and title. Title page: in blue ink, "D.J. Spiers, Ballaarat CAE, November 1986".btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, hancock report, industrial relations, industrial relations - arbitration, industrial relations - industrial action, wages, economics

Published semi-annually, contains refereed, scholarly articles about social and labour history in Australasia, - labour politics, trade unions, management labour practices, co-operatives, gender and ethnicity. This edition includes these articles: -Labourism: a Political Genealogy -Class, Populism and Labour Politics in Victoria, 1890-1914 -Keynesianism, Socialism and Labourism and the Role of Ideas in Labour Ideology -A Century of Laborism and the State, 1891-1993: An Historical Interpretation -We are of Age: Class, Locality and Region at Port Kembla, 1900-1940 -Researching Industrial Relations History: The Development of a Databas on Australian Trade Unions 1825-1900 -Loyalty and Communists: an interview with Bill Gollan -International Women's Day in Newcastle in the Fifties and Sixties: A Personal Account -Forthcoming: A Bibliography of Australian Communism -Postcard from California: the Hoover Institute -The ACTU Congress of 1993 -Australian Canadian Labour History Conference -The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History -The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance -Book reviews -Newcastle's Special Day; Australians in Spain Memorial UnveilingLabour and class politics; direct relevance to industrial relations; social issues in general that fall within the purview of the union movement.Book; paper.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, history - labour, labourism, politics - class, industrial relations, economics, politics - communism, women's rights, book reviews, conference reports

Published semi-annually, contains refereed, scholarly articles about social and labour history in Australasia, - labour politics, trade unions, management labour practices, co-operatives, gender and ethnicity. This edition includes these articles: -Deskilling Revisited: Continuity and Change in Craft Work and Apprenticeship in Late 19th Century NSW -'Depravity and Disorder': the Sexuality of Convict Women -'That Old Treasure-House of Constructive Suggestion': Australian Labor Ideology and War Organisation of Industry -'Four More Points than Moses': Dr. H.V. Evatt and the Press and the 1944 Referendum -Chifley, the Army and the 1949 Coal Strike Labour and class politics; direct relevance to industrial relations; social issues in general that fall within the purview of the union movement.Book; paper.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, history - labour, labourism, politics - class, industrial relations, economics, politics - communism, women's rights, book reviews, conference reports

The author seeks to broaden the reader's understanding of unions. Section titles: -Historical and Theoretical Context -Organisation and Practice -Issues and Policy -Future Context and Perspective Significant to understanding the role and history of trade unions in Australia and workplace relations. Therefore directly relevant to the modus operandi of Ballarat Trades Hall.Book; paper.Both copies - Cover: editors' names and title. 2nd edition - Title page: in blue ink, "D.J. Spiers, Ballaarat CAE, July 1989".btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, trade unions, industrial relations

About teacher unions in Australia: policy; industrial relations; politics. Industrial relations - historical value. Significant to understanding the role and history of trade unions in Australia and workplace relations. Therefore directly relevant to the modus operandi of Ballarat Trades Hall.Book; paper.Front cover: authors' names and title. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, trade unions - education, australian education union - aeu, industrial relations

Various authors. Reading about workplace reform in Australian employment relations. Section headings: - The reform agenda - Case studies at the industry and regional level - Case studies at the enterprise level - Issues and impacts - Negotiating workplace reformRelevance to workplace relations and the operations of trade unions and employers.Book; paper.Front cover: editors' names and title. Cover page: in blue ink, "D.J. Spiers, University of Ballaarat, September 1995".btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, industrial relations, workplace relations, trade unions, enterprise bargaining