The Australian Council of Trade Unions in the Making of Modern Australia

这个项目将政治、经济和社会历史与女权主义分析结合起来，探讨澳大利亚工会理事会在塑造现代澳大利亚方面的重要性。该项目定位在劳动政治和经济结构调整的国家框架内，以及冷战对抗主义的国际背景下，超越了ACTU在工作场所谈判中的关键作用，以评估其国际形象以及对女性化劳动力市场和新兴女性领导力组织的影响。在一项创新的研究中，突出霍克时代，以显示ACTU的历史作为一个过渡到治理，我们的目标是揭示澳大利亚劳工运动的潜力，以影响变化。

This project brings political, economic and social history together with a feminist analysis to explore the Australian Council of Trade Unions' significance in shaping modern Australia. Positioned within a national framework of labour politics and economic restructuring, and an international context of Cold War adversarialism, the project goes beyond the ACTU's key role in workplace bargaining to an assessment of its international profile and the impact on the organisation of a feminising labour market and emergent women’s leadership. In an innovative study that highlights the Hawke era to show the ACTU's history as one of transition to governance, we aim to reveal the potential of the Australian labour movement to effect change.