Anatomy Of A Strike
Jack de Lissa, Sydney, 190 pp. , $8. 95
Anatomy Of A Strike
I would like to think that the author hiding behind the pseudonym of Lake O’Charley is Don Chipp. Chipp would certainly be an enthusiastic supporter of the industrial relations policies advocated by the key characters in Anatomy of a Strike. And Lake O’Charley, like Chipp, clearly has a good working knowledge of the inner world of industrial relations. But I’ll play safe and settle for the assertion that Chipp and O’Charley are like-minded in much the same way as are the two main characters in this book – Richard Altman, QC , Counsel for the moderate Oil Superintendents and Operatives Union (OSO), and Robert Parrish, recently appointed Minister for Industrial Relations in the Australian Liberal Government.
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