A3 - What About the Workers Part 3 1988, 1988

Component identifier:

File A3

Content Summary:

Side A. Episode 3 'The Taste of Defeat'. 3rd in a 4-part series of ABC 'Background Briefing' on 'What About the Workers', aired during 1988. This episode focuses on industrial militancy during the 20th century, especially the 1949 coalminers' strike and its effects, and the impacts on the labour movement of both world wars and the Depression. It includes original soundtrack of radio commentary on the 1949 strike plus extracts from speeches by Chifley as PM and Menzies as Leader of the Opposition. Interviewees are: Verity Burgmann, Manning Clark, Humphrey McQueen, Gary Wotherspoon, Wendy Lowenstein and Tom Sheridan; and Harry Reid (old activist, whose father was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World), Laurie Aarons (longtime leader of the Communist Party of Australia) and Edgar Ross (miners' union leader and Communist Party Central Committee member for 30 years). Side B. Jeff Goldhar on ALP Left and Liz Ross on the Accord: Ignore: quality not good.

Subjects:

Politics and government
Academic
History

Names:

Burgmann, Verity, FASS, Adjunct Professor of Politics

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