Arbitration or Mobilisation: the Battle of Broken Hill begins
Tenth part of Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand The ore miners at the Barrier were central to the Australian economy and thus wielded […]
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The Sydney Rockchoppers and the health benefits of striking
On 4 October Holland arrived in Broken Hill; the same night he addressed a meeting of over 2,000 at the Hippodrome – in a town whose entire population was only […]
The coal lumpers’ strike and the rapid growth of revolutionary socialism
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand – Part 8 Holland and the Socialist Federation immediately threw themselves into four key industrial battles which, over […]
Pasteur, rabbits and the working class – a case study in the politics of science
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand Part 7 The gold rush of the nineteenth century had brought large numbers of free immigrants to the […]
The opening of a revolutionary century
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 6 As the general strike movement in Russia grew over the northern summer of 1905, the Founding […]
The years of frustration, defeat, and sorrow
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 5. On his release from prison, Holland, Barlow and Batho evaluated the experience of producing The Socialist […]
The muddy waters of early Australian socialism
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 4. For earlier parts, click on links for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 As depression conditions deepened and […]
Down and out in Sydney and Newcastle
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 3. For earlier parts, click on links for Part 1 and Part 2 Harry Holland’s new job […]
Young Harry Holland: the soapbox preacher
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand – Part 2. (For Part 1 click here). Little detail is known of Harry Holland’s childhood. Despite being […]
The nineteenth-century police state in New South Wales
Harry Holland and the labour movement in Australasia Part 1 In the year 1890, a mass strike erupted that eventually involved sixty thousand waterside workers, seafarers, miners, shearers and rail workers […]
