Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History

Michael Quinlan is emeritus professor of industrial relations University of New South Wales, visiting professor Middlesex University and adjunct professor, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania. His major research interest are occupational health and safety and industrial relations history. His books include The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788–1850 (Routledge, New York 2018) and Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851–1880 (Routledge, New York 2020) and he is currently writing a book on collective action by convict workers with Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. Sarah Gregson is a labour historian in the School of Management at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She was a chief investigator in a 2011–14 Linkage project, The Future of Aircraft Maintenance in Australia: Workforce Capability, Aviation Safety and Industry Development and has since co-authored a range of articles and reports on aircraft maintenance work organisation and safety. Other research interests include the West Gate Bridge collapse, labour memorialisation, and the social history of the Titanic sinking. She practices what she teaches as a branch president of the National Tertiary Education Union.