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Sarah Gregson

Sarah Gregson - Australian School of Business 
BA (Hons), PhD UNSW

Senior Lecturer

Phone:

+61 2 9385 7151 

Fax:

+61 2 9662 8531 

Room:

505 

Address:

Australian School of Business building

Publications

Refereed journal articles

 

  • 2012 ‘Women and Children First? The administration of the Titanic Relief Fund in Southampton, 1912-1959’, English Historical Review, 127 (254)
  • 2011 ‘Missing in action: Aircraft maintenance and the recent ‘HRM in the airlines’ literature’, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, December (with I. Hampson and A. Junor)
  • 2011 ‘Commitment or even compliance? An Australian university’s approach to Equal Employment Opportunity’, Relations Industrielles, 66 (2) (with A. North-Samardzic)
  • 2008 'Titanic 'Down Under': Ideology, Myth and Memorialisation', Social History, vol. 33, no. 3, 2008
  • 2007 'War, Racism and Industrial Relations in an Australian Mining Town, 1916-1935', Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 2007
  • 2004 'Defending internationalism in interwar Broken Hill', Labour History, no 86, 2004
  • 2001 'It all started on the mines'?: The 1934 Kalgoorlie race riots revisited', Labour History, no. 80, May 2001

 

Chapters in books

 

  • 2006 'Who built the Sydney Opera House?' in A. Watson (ed), Building a Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House, Powerhouse Publishing/Lund Humphries UK, Sydney, 2006

 

Conference papers

 

  • 2010 ‘Memorialising Workers: ‘reading’ a material heritage’ in A. Barnes, N. Balnave and G. Lafferty (eds), Work in Progress: Crises, Choices and Continuity Proceedings of the 24th AIRAANZ conference, February 2010
  • 2010 The Political Economy and Skills of Aircraft Maintenance: Towards a Research Agenda, Paper presented at the 28th Annual International Labour Process Conference, Rutgers University, New York, 15-17 March (with I. Hampson and A. Junor)
  • 2009 'Women and Children First? The Administration of the Titanic Relief Fund, 1912-1959', Legacies '09 conference, Public Memory Research Centre, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 13-14 February 2009
  • 2007 'Ethnicity and Labour' in R. Markey (ed), Proceedings of the Trans Tasman Labour History Conference, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, 30 January-1 February 2007
  • 2007 'Teaching History to Management Students: Serving the Student or the Client?', Australian Historical Association Conference, University of New England, Armidale, 23-26 September 2007
  • 2005 'Titanic Memorials in Australia: The myth and the message' paper presented at 'The Past is Before Us', the Ninth Biennial National Labour History Conference, Sydney University, 30 June – 2 July 2005
  • 2004 'The Right's Respectable Face: returned soldier organisation in interwar Australia', paper presented at 'The 'Extreme Right' in Twentieth Century Australia' conference, Sydney University, 9-10 October 2004
  • 2003 'Taylor-made Racism: Mine managers and migrant labour in Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill in the early twentieth century', paper presented to 'Transforming Labour: Work, Workers, Struggle and Change', the Eighth Biennial National Labour History Conference, Griffith University, October
  • 2001 'He would rather serve under the flag of British Imperialism than in the cause of the workers': Anti-unionism in Broken Hill', paper presented at 'Work, Organisation, Struggle', the Seventh Biennial National Labour History Conference, April
  • 2001 'Racism and Anti-Unionism', paper presented to the Sydney branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 9th May

Research interests

  • Labour process and aircraft maintenance work
  • Diversity management and discrimination
  • Australian labour history-1890s - 1930s
  • Australian conservatism
  • Social history of the Titanic sinking

Research grants

2011-2013: The future of aircraft maintenance in Australia: workforce capability, aviation safety and industry development (with Michael Quinlan, Ian Hampson, Anne Junor, Ann Williamson, Garry Barrett and Erik van Voorthuysen). 2011 $75,000, 2012 $71,000, 2013 $80,000

 Courses taught

  • MGMT2705 Industrial Relations
  • MGMT3708 Research Methods in Employment and Management
  • MGMT5700 Management, Work and Organisation
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