Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

Donihue, M., Findlay, D., and Newberry, P. 2007.‘An analysis of attendance at major league baseball spring training games’,Journ ...

Ward, T. 2009.‘Early sports 1860– 1900 ’,Soccer and Society, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 584–98. Wilson, J. K. and Pomfret, R. 2009.‘Gov ...

12 The Industrialist, the Solicitor, and Mr Justice Higgins Some Biographical Insights into the Harvester Case of 1907 Peter Yul ...

The Higgins family came from the strongly Catholic town of Ballina in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland.^2 The family had ...

Victoria, arriving in Melbourne on theJoshuain January 1852. Thefirst gold rushes in Victoria had begun in mid-1851, and family ...

there were strong economic incentives to mechanize farming processes and the government even offered prizes for successful new m ...

other industrial tribunals would not be extended to his new factory.^6 In spite of this, he was a paternalistic employer, provid ...

‘fair and reasonable’wages were, but left this to the new Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court to decide. H. V. McKay ...

He would not think that an employer and a workman contracted on an equal footing, or made a fair agreement as to wages, when the ...

was in most ways a very conservative man. He was a member of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club and the Melbourne Club—he died in his ...

cut and hard-won conditions removed (Gollan, 1960, ch. 8; Blainey 1980, pp. 264–77; Svenson 1989). The industrial chaos of the e ...

In the early 1900s, as the economy slowly recovered from the depression, two of the major issues facing the new Commonwealth wer ...

At the turn of the century, Higgins had been a lonely voice in Australian public life in opposing the Boer War, but in 1914 he c ...

the seat since Federation, retired from politics. McKay was one of thefirst candidates to use a car for campaigning, touring the ...

This reflects the structure of the Australian economy, in which the drivers of economic growth have always been a combination of ...

Melbourne, Sydney, and Monash Universities, publishing widely on Austra- lian and British imperial history, with perhaps his mos ...

Blainey, G. 1994.A Shorter History of Australia. Melbourne: William Heinemann. Boehm, E. A. 1971.Prosperity and Depression in Au ...

Plowman, J. D. 2011.‘Industrial arbitration and the Single Purpose League’,Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. ...

13 Barons versus Bureaucrats The History of the Grain Trade in North America and Australia Nick Cater The pioneers of American i ...

much greater extent than in the USA. Farming cooperatives, which became dominant players in the Canadian grain market, were larg ...