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Women Fighting Back in the Depression Years
Read about the role that women played in unemployed movements during the Depression Years in Australia in this book excerpt by Janey Stone.
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Beer Strikes: A History of Hotel Boycotts in Australia, 1900-1920
Watch this video presentation or read an article about beer strikes and the history of hotel / pub boycotts in Australia in the early 1900s.
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Australians General Strike for Right to Unionize, Brisbane, Australia, 1912
Brisbane unionists organised a general strike in 1912 to protect and enhance the rights of tramways workers to organise.
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Australian Aboriginal Workers Strike for Fair Wages and Equality, 1946-1949
Indigenous pastoral workers in the Kimberley region of Western Australia struck for equal wages and full civil rights in the late 1940s.
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Torres Strait Soldiers Stage Stay at Home Strikes, 1943
Torres Strait Islander soldiers strike to end discrimination in the army during World War Two.
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Torres Strait Islanders Hold Maritime Strike Against Pearling Industry, 1936
Torres Strait Islanders refused work in the Native Affairs pearling fleet due to racial discrimination and held a maritime strike in 1936.
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Strikes Resource Guide
Five books, five articles and five videos on strikes by Bright Green Independent Media for Radical, Democratic and Green Movements.ย
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Online Picket Line Guide
Do you want to know how to run an online picket line? Here is a guide from the Victorian Trades Hall Council who ran the world’s 1st online picket line in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to launch digital actions for the campaign for #WageSubsidyForAll.
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