Dr Rosemary Webb BA(Melb), DipEd(Monash), MLitt(UNE), GradDipIR(UC), PhD(UNSW) Rosemary lectured in politics and history at Southern Cross University from 2003 to 2011. As a labour historian, her doctoral and ongoing research addressed the collaborative industrial strategies of Sydney’s female trade union organisers and women activists in the interwar years. She is consumed by historical and political dynamics in justice, geography, labour and mobilisation, including the mobilisation of refugees through forced migration and diaspora. Since 1999 she has been a member of the Editorial Board of Labour History, the journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH): her scholarly memberships also include the Australian Historical Association, the Society for the Study of Labour History (UK) , the Economic History Society (UK) and the Australian Political Studies Association.
Journal articles
Appreciable Injury to Health - confronting health and safety in Australia’s workplaces during the first half of the twentieth century, The International Journal of the Humanities (2009)
A state’s management of workplace safety is one indicator of its integrity. This paper uses...
Addressing work: industrial women and organising in the interwar years, Hecate (2007)
In the 1920s and 30s female labour organisers were confronted by industrial, economic, social and...
Book review: Gill Kirton 2006, The making of women trade unionists, gender and organizational theory series, Ashgate, Aldershot UK, Journal of Industrial Relations (2007)
Collaborative women: industrial organising and the sex divide in Sydney’s inter-war years, Australian Feminist Studies (2007)
‘I have never been ‘‘feministic’’ in my approach to working-class problems . . . There...
Books
Work - organisation - struggle : papers from the seventh National Labour History Conference (with P Griffiths), School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2001)
Theses
Industrial women: organising, strategy and community in Sydney 1917-1940, PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (2004)
This thesis examines the presence of women as trade union organisers and labour activists in...
Conference presentations
Labour biography on screen: the case of Freda Brown (with Lisa Milner), Labour history and its people: papers from the twelfth National Labour History Conference (2011)
The written biographies and memoirs of activists and leaders have long been core components of...
Work is a human right: seeking asylum, seeking employment, Migrant security 2010: refereed proceedings of the national symposium: citizenship and social inclusion in a transnational era (2010)
This paper argues matters of rights and of belonging in the relationship between forced migration...
‘Politics have replaced justice’ (Major Michael Mori, July 2006): the long imprisonment of David Hicks (Presentation), School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2006)
This paper draws together some key points and perspectives surrounding the imprisonment of David Hicks....
You could go to the Trades Hall and meet organisers: labour precincts and labour women in interwar Sydney, The Past is Before Us: Ninth National Labour History Conference (2005)
This paper analyses spatial influences in Sydney on labour women’s interwar industrial activism and strategic...