Sharing Research and Reports via the Commons Library
How the Commons Social Change Library can help academics and researchers share their work more effectively with campaigners and improve impact.
How the Commons Social Change Library can help academics and researchers share their work more effectively with campaigners and improve impact.
Read a book excerpt from United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia which discusses women’s resistance to workplace exploitation.
Book review of “Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions” which examines how human feelings are influenced by the cultures we live in.
Excerpts from the Cocmo-local work handbook discuss key concepts regarding a form of Commoning and includes a case study about a project which openly shares information and produces technological solutions for small scale, organic agriculture.
Read an excerpt from the book Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia about the fight for equal pay.
An interview with a member of the Western Australia-based Grevillea about how the group applied a dynamic and creative perspective to approaching issues such as militarism, pollution and international solidarity during the 1980s and 1990s.
Virginia Tognola chronicles how practical solidarity in the form of street kitchens and the “popular pot” has not only enabled migrants and others in Argentina to survive but also raise issues and campaign against sub-standard living conditions.
Insights into how a grass roots community campaign based in Gloucester Valley, NSW scored a major victory against the Coal Seam Gas industry.
Tips from Oxfam about how to write a letter that will have maximum impact on a Member of Parliament.
This article by Oxfam Australia provides tips to help get your letter to the editor published.
Resources produced and compiled by the Australian Services Union for workers organising around climate change and extreme weather related workplace health & safety.
The 2023 book Labour Power and Strategy, edited by Peter Olney and Glenn Perušek, is centred around a lengthy interview with labour organiser and historian John Womack Jr in which he argues for the importance of ‘strategic workplace organising’
This article provides a powerful way to use research to advance a range of economic, environmental, and social issues.
A timeline of the Green Bans implemented by NSW Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) in the early 1970s.