Labor Relations in the Western Australian Coal Mining Industry

* This article is based largely on an unpublished M.Ec. thesis submitted by the writer to the University of Western Australia in September 1966.

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Clark Kerr, op. cit.

D.W. Oxnam , "The Incidence of Strikes in Australia", in Australian Labour Relations: Readings, edited by J. E. Isaac and G. W. Ford , Melbourne, Sun Books, 1966, pp. 24-25.

K.F. Walker , Industrial Relations in Australia, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1956, p. 211.

F.R.E. Mauldon , The Economics of Australian Coal, Melbourne University Press, 1929, p. 59.

Western Australia , Report of Royal Commission into the Coal Mining Industry, unpublished Report , Parliament House, Perth, 1946, p. 10.

A.N.J. Blain , Labour Relations in the Western Australian Coal Mining Industry (unpublished M.Ec. thesis, University of Western Australia, 1966), pp. 137-8.

Blain, op. cit., pp. 139-40.

Commonwealth of Australia, Report of the Commissioner upon the Coal Mining Industry, Parliamentary Papers (1945-46), Vol. III, p. 546.

Oxnam, op. cit., p. 45.

Western Australia , Report of the Royal Commission into the Coal Mining Industry of Western Australia , Parliament House, Perth, 1933, Part II, p. xli.

Jim Comerford , "Some Notes on the Western Australian Coal Industry ", Common Cause, May 20, 1964.

A.N.J. Blain , "The Economic Reorganization of the Western Australian Coal Mining Industry", Economic Activity in Western Australia, IX, No. 3, July 1966, p. 12.