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From Labour Market Exclusion to Industrial Solidarity: Australian Trade Union Responses to Asian Workers, 1830-1988

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  • Quinlan, Michael
  • Lever-Tracy, Constance

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This paper analyzes the historical interaction of immigration, racism and labor markets in Australia. In particular, it seeks to explain how a trade union movement which played a significant part in the exclusion of Asian immigrants gradually came to renounce racist sentiments and accept large scale Asian immigration even at a time of widespread unemployment. It is argued that while racism is often seen as self-perpetuating, the ratios between Australian unions and Asian workers have been historically contingent upon the interaction of socioeconomic forces, including the nature of the economy and trade, the linking of racism with nationalistic sentiment, the shifting balance of class forces, the impact of immigration on patterns of labor market segmentation, and the nature of labor market regulation. Copyright 1990 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Quinlan, Michael & Lever-Tracy, Constance, 1990. "From Labour Market Exclusion to Industrial Solidarity: Australian Trade Union Responses to Asian Workers, 1830-1988," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 14(2), pages 159-181, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:14:y:1990:i:2:p:159-81
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    1. Anastasia Gorodzeisky & Andrew Richards, 2020. "Do Immigrants Trust Trade Unions? A Study of 18 European Countries," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 58(1), pages 3-26, March.
    2. Stephen Clibborn & Chris F. Wright, 2022. "The Efficiencies and Inequities of Australia's Temporary Labour Migration Regime," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 55(2), pages 254-262, June.
    3. Chris F Wright & Stephen Clibborn, 2020. "A guest-worker state? The declining power and agency of migrant labour in Australia," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 31(1), pages 34-58, March.

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