Fighting for workers: a history of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1955-2012. This project provides the first book-length history of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest union federation in the United States. It will focus on the central theme of declining union membership and will innovatively place the AFL-CIO's problems in an international context.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100775
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$338,512.00
Summary
Secularism in nineteenth-century America: a history. This project brings to light a popular movement in nineteenth-century America which sought to separate Church and State. The project thus offers a crucial historical context to modern debates about the role of religion in public life and whether or not the United States is a Christian nation.
Making torture unthinkable': the international campaign against torture, 1967-1984. How did human rights become such a pervasive global language today, and how has it shaped what states do? This project argues that a movement against torture in the 1970s and 1980s played a key role in shifting global attitudes and creating our current understanding of human rights, and provides the first analysis of how this came to be.
Archiving Social Movements & Building Historical Literacy for a Digital Age. This project aims to investigate how the history of social movements has been collected, catalogued and curated by archives and museums. It is significant because it will make these histories available to form an equitable and inclusive civic culture. An expected outcome is an interdisciplinary approach producing new knowledge about citizens’ roles in shaping private and public collections, and about the use of these co ....Archiving Social Movements & Building Historical Literacy for a Digital Age. This project aims to investigate how the history of social movements has been collected, catalogued and curated by archives and museums. It is significant because it will make these histories available to form an equitable and inclusive civic culture. An expected outcome is an interdisciplinary approach producing new knowledge about citizens’ roles in shaping private and public collections, and about the use of these collections to shape memory and generate wider historical literacy. Benefits include providing insight into inclusive physical and digital collecting practices, which enables the project to address UNESCO’s goal of achieving greater access to decision-making about culture, heritage and the formation of social identities.Read moreRead less
Popular Petitioning and Mass Democracy in the United States: a History. This project aims to investigate the neglected history of popular petitioning in the United States. Across the long nineteenth century, activists organised mass petition campaigns in support of causes as diverse as antislavery, suffrage and immigration restriction. In the twentieth century, however, petitioning dwindled. The project draws on this rich archive of activism to assess the role, impact and evolution of petitionin ....Popular Petitioning and Mass Democracy in the United States: a History. This project aims to investigate the neglected history of popular petitioning in the United States. Across the long nineteenth century, activists organised mass petition campaigns in support of causes as diverse as antislavery, suffrage and immigration restriction. In the twentieth century, however, petitioning dwindled. The project draws on this rich archive of activism to assess the role, impact and evolution of petitioning as a democratic tool. The expected outcome is a new perspective on a vital development: the emergence of mass democracy. Furthermore, the project should provide a critical historical framework for assessing modern-day claims about the digital petition and its power to bridge the gulf between citizens and government. Read moreRead less
Making architectural identity: the architecture of John Andrews. The important Australian architect John Andrews had a career unique for its success, first in Canada and the United States and then in Australia. Research into his design work and how it has been understood will develop new knowledge of design practices of the 1970s, how architecture is understood in terms of nationality, and how design has become globalised.
Traffic in women and girls in the Asia Pacific region, 1865-1940. This project will offer a critical analysis of historical narratives on the traffic in women within Asia Pacific networks. It will position Australian history at the forefront of international research on transnational history, informed by race and gender studies and considers parallels with today’s human trafficking debates.
Motoring On? A New History of the U.S. Car Industry since 1900. This project aims to provide a new history of the U.S. car industry between 1900 and 2020. America was the industry’s birthplace, and the car is integral to national identity and history. Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. was the world's biggest auto market, and today it has almost as many cars as people. For decades, the auto sector was central to policy-making; today it is integral to Climate Change. The intended outcome ....Motoring On? A New History of the U.S. Car Industry since 1900. This project aims to provide a new history of the U.S. car industry between 1900 and 2020. America was the industry’s birthplace, and the car is integral to national identity and history. Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. was the world's biggest auto market, and today it has almost as many cars as people. For decades, the auto sector was central to policy-making; today it is integral to Climate Change. The intended outcome is the first comprehensive history that blends the perspective of business and labor, rather than treating them separately, and the first history that covers the domestic and foreign-owned sectors. Its central question interrogates how this industry assumed - and maintained - a prominent place in American life.Read moreRead less
From colonial to modern: transnational girlhood in Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian print cultures (1840-1940). This project will produce new histories of girlhood through the examination of Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian print culture. It will shed new light on how colonial girlhood reflected transitional ideals and how Australia related to fellow colonies through its print culture and developed unique national ideals for girls in the modern period.
Familial Separation, Emotions, and Jewish Child Refugees, 1933-1945. Drawing upon largely untapped wartime sources from refugee youth, this project aims to produce the first sustained study of the lived experiences and memories of Nazi era Jewish unaccompanied child refugees to the United States. It expects to generate new knowledge by tracing the links between children, emotions, and mobility; the role of ideas about the family in shaping immigration policies; and the emergence of Holocaust su ....Familial Separation, Emotions, and Jewish Child Refugees, 1933-1945. Drawing upon largely untapped wartime sources from refugee youth, this project aims to produce the first sustained study of the lived experiences and memories of Nazi era Jewish unaccompanied child refugees to the United States. It expects to generate new knowledge by tracing the links between children, emotions, and mobility; the role of ideas about the family in shaping immigration policies; and the emergence of Holocaust survivor identities. The expected benefit of this work includes advancing academic and public understanding of how age, emotions and mobility can broaden our understanding of the Holocaust experience, child migration, and familial separation. Read moreRead less