Bibliography

Sources for this history of the CFMEU include:

On Strong Foundations: The BWIU and industrial relations in the Australian Construction Industry 1942-1992, by Glenn Mitchell (Harcourt Brace: Sydney 1996)

A Brush with History - the Painters' Union and the Australian Labour Movement, by John Spierings (Highland House Melbourne 1994)

A History of Industrial Relations in the Sydney Building Trades 1870-1914, by Alice Maeve Coolican (unpublished University of NSW PhD thesis, 1989)

On Strong Foundations: A short history of the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, by Pat Clancy (unpublished pamphlet, c1980 )

Civilising the Industry: A reflection on the role of the Builders' Labourers Federation in Australian Industry and Society (undated pamphlet)

Intimate Union: Sharing a Revolutionary Life, by Tom and Audrey McDonald (Pluto Press: Sydney, 1998)

Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental activism and the New South Wales Buiders Labourers' Federation by Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998)

'It must be true � it's in the papers!' Building Workers and the Press: 160 Years of Anti-Union Propaganda, by Paul True (NSW Branch CFMEU: Sydney, 1999)


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