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dc.contributor.authorBailey, Janis
dc.contributor.editorGreg Patmore
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:12:20Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:12:20Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.date.modified2010-08-06T07:23:41Z
dc.identifier.issn00236942
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/33331
dc.description.abstractThis article analyses the so-called 'Third Wave" campaign in Western Australia in 1997 in order to study the dynamics of union culture as a 'lived practice'. The research uses a mixed methods approach, drawing on a variety of data collected as part of the recording of a 'people's history' for the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (Perth Branch). The analysis takes as its starting point the need to hold in tension Raymond Williams' notion of culture as a 'whole way of life'and E.P. Thompson's notion of it as a 'whole way of struggle'. Four themes are examined: the eclecticism of the unions' cultural strategies, the nature of the union cultural strategy as at one and the same time 'manufactured' and spontaneous, the ideological content of union cultural practices as well as the use of 'the politics of pleasure', and the role of culture in both maintaining and transforming 'old orders', both internally and in the wider society. What emerges from the study is a picture of the ways in which union culture can be used strategically by unions for campaigning purposes. This study reveals a complex, multi-stranded view of union cultur?is) that can be contrasted to the hegemonic, uni-dimensional view of union culture promoted by governments, employers and the media.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAustralian Society for the Study of Labour History
dc.publisher.placeSydney
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.labourhistory.org.au/journal/about/
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom35
dc.relation.ispartofpageto56
dc.relation.ispartofissueNOV
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLabour History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume79
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBusiness and Management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and Philosophy of Specific Fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1503
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2202
dc.titleBlue Singlets and Broccoli: Culture in the Service of Union Struggle
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2000
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBailey, Janis M.


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