Archives: Publications

By Michael G Quinlan Routledge Description From Routledge (publisher’s) website: Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation. The author’s 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and regulatory subordination of labour, drove worker resistance, […]

Edited by Anika Gauja, Marian Sawer, and Marian Simms. ANU Press   This book, the 17th in the federal election series and the ninth sponsored by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, provides a comprehensive account of the 2019 Australian election, which resulted in the surprise victory of the Coalition under Scott Morrison. It […]

By Ken Inglis, Bill Gammage, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter with Carol Bunyan Monash University Publishing September 2020 saw the 80th anniversary of the arrival in Australia of the MT Dunera carrying around 2500 refugees from WW2 Europe who were subsequently interned in regional NSW as “enemy aliens”. Many of the “Dunera boys” stayed in […]

Edited by Marian Sawer, Fiona Jenkins and Karen Downing Palgrave   “This brilliant volume applies a gender lens to the knowledge-production process, revealing the distortions in what we thought we knew. The authors move beyond critique to suggest high-impact ways to remedy these shortcomings, a smart concept carried out consistently well. By using feminist interventions […]

By Joshua Gans MIT Press First Reads A guide to the pandemic economy: essential reading about the long-term implications of our current crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a firehose of information (much of it wrong) and an avalanche of opinions (many of them ill-founded). Most of us are so distracted by the everyday awfulness […]

By Jolanda Jetten, Stephen D. Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam & Tegan Cruwys Social Science Space, an imprint of SAGE Publishing COVID-19 has disrupted almost every aspect of our society in early-2020, and in doing so has affected almost every person on the planet. As governments scramble to deal with the health, social and economic fallout […]