The WOW factor: Wollongong’s unemployed and the dispossession of class and history
Submitted by wojtek on Oct 25 2012 21:40
The following is the text of a paper delivered to the first biennial Wollongong History Conference hosted by the University of Wollongong in June, 2007. The theme for the conference was Memory, Heritage and Place: Wollongong’s Changing History.
Wollongong Out Of Workers' Union interviews
A series of interviews with Wollongong Out Of Workers' Union (WOW) activists in the 1980s, conducted 2005-6 by Nick Southall as part of his honours thesis research, investigating WOW as a project expressing proletarian self-activity.
Working for the class: The praxis of the Wollongong Out of Workers’ Union
Submitted by Steven. on May 6 2011 11:53
Nick Southall's detailed history and analysis of the Wollongong Out of Workers' Union in Australia from 1983-1989, an organisation of unemployed workers he took part in which fought for better benefits and also assisted the struggles of employed workers.
