Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

Struggles

by
February–March 1984, no. 58

The Ironworkers: A History of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia by Robert Murray and Kate White

Hale & Iremonger, $11.95 pb, 341 pp

Struggles

by
February–March 1984, no. 58

The authors’ respective backgrounds gave them excellent qualifications to write this history of the FIA and the result is a book which should have much wider interest than its bland title suggests.

The book’s title and the fact that it was commissioned for the seventieth anniversary of the FIA may give the misleading impression that it is just a dutiful chronicle bespattered with lots of names of worthy, former officials. On the contrary, it is a lively, readable account of a union in which the rise and fall of political factions mirrored events in the entire labour movement and the community as a whole.

The Ironworkers: A History of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia

The Ironworkers: A History of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia

by Robert Murray and Kate White

Hale & Iremonger, $11.95 pb, 341 pp

From the New Issue

You May Also Like

Leave a comment

If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment.

If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name.

Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions.