Associate Professor Tom Sheridan

Biography/ Background

Tom Sheridan received his Ph D from the Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities in Australia. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian Government under the citation: "For Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in the Study of Industrial Relations"

Research Interests

Dr Sheridan's main research has concentrated on various aspects of mid-20th Century Australian industrial relations. The main focus has been on the role and varying tactics of the many arms of the state as well as on the often contrasting 'industrial culture' of management and workgroups operating in any particular sector. His major research project has aimed at producing a three-volume study of industrial relations in the period 1945-1970. The second volume, on the turbulent waterfront, has recently been completed. Earlier publications include Mindful Militants (Cambridge University Press) and Division of Labour (Oxford University Press).

Publications

Books

Tom Sheridan, Australia's Own Cold War. The Waterfront Under Menzies, 1949-1967. Melbourne University Press

Sheridan, T. (1989), Division of Labour: Industrial Relations in the Chifley Years, 1945-1949, Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Sheridan, T. (1976), Mindful Militants. The Amalgamated Engineering Union in Australia 1920-1972, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Chapters in Books:

Tom Sheridan "Australasian Maritime Unionism" Encyclopedia of Maritime History, New York, Oxford University press, 2007 (forthcoming)

Sheridan, T. (2001), "Strikes", pp. 519-20 in The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, Adelaide, Wakefield Press.

Sheridan, T. (2001), "Industrial Relations", pp. 278-80 in The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, Adelaide, Wakefield Press.

Sheridan, T. (2001), "The Tait Inquiry and the 1956 Stevedoring Industry Act", pp. 223-30 in Work: Organisation: Struggle, edited by P. Griffiths and R. Webb, Papers from the Seventh National Labour History Conference.

Sheridan, T. (2001), "Employment", pp. 170-3 in The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, Adelaide, Wakefield Press.

Sheridan, T. (1998), "Postwar Reconstruction", pp. 520-2 in The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Melbourne: Oxford University Press

Journal Articles:

Sheridan, T. and P.Stretton (2004), "Mandarins, Ministers And The Bar On Married Women", The Journal of Industrial Relations 46(1): 84-101, March 2004.

Sheridan, T. (1999), "The 1998 Waterfront Dispute in its Historical Context", International Employment Relations Review 5(2): 1-14.

Sheridan, T. (1999), "Regulator Par Exellence: Sir Henry Bland and Industrial Relations, 1950-1967", The Journal of Industrial Relations 40(2): 228-55.

Sheridan, T. (1998), "Peter Gordon Macarthy 1926-1989: From Murmansk To Mexico, Via Sunshine", The Journal of Industrial Relations 40: 364-70.

Sheridan, T. (1998), "Regulating the Waterfront Industry 1950-1968", The Journal of Industrial Relations 40: 441-60.

Sheridan, T. (1997), "The Old Order and the New: Contrasts in the Response of Australian and Overseas Shipowners to Full Employment on the Waterfront, 1944-1952", Labour History pp. 142-68, November.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 17 Jul 2012