Notes to Trudinger, No more ‘the big stick’:

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My thanks to the conference organisers, and also Penny Russell and Lucy Taksa for comments.

(1) Most informative on this concept is Volume Three of Marx ‘s Capital, although earlier conceptualisations are present in The German Ideology [see eg. R. Tucker, The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition, W.Norton, New York, 1978, 439-442, 1466-202]. See also, M. Burawoy, ‘Towards a Marxist Theory of the Labor Process: Braverman and Beyond ‘, Politics and Society, vol. 8, nos. 3-4, 1978, 247-312.

(2) B. Palmer, Descent Into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1990.

(3) Two recent and informative studies of pre-war management trends are: L. Taksa, ‘ ‘All a Matter of Timing ‘: Managerial Innovation and Workplace Culture in the New South Wales Railways and Tramways prior to 1921 ‘, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 29, no. 110, 1998, 1-26; K. Blackburn, ‘The Quest for Efficiency and the Rise of Industrial Psychology in Australia, 1916-1929 ‘, Labour History, no. 74, 1998, 122-136.

(4) This comment, by Mr J. Lewis, was made in a debate reported in Personnel Management; ‘Personnel Management is Bankrupt? ‘ Personnel Management, vol. 7, no. 3, 1969, 136-142, 140. (hitherto referred to as PM)

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

(6) W. Scott, Greater Production, Its Problems and Possibilities, Including a Full Treatment of Incentives, Law Book Company, Sydney, 1950, ix.

(7) Bulletin of Industrial Psychology and Personnel Practice, vol. 2, no. 1, 1946, 10. (hitherto referred to as BIPPP)

(8) Ibid.

(9) Industrial Welfare Division, Department of Labour and National Service, How to Reduce Absenteeism and Increase Production, An Australian Survey, Bulletin no. 2, Commonwealth of Australia, 1943, 38.

(10) Ibid., 38.

(11) The Department of Labour and National Service provided a variety of widely read pamphlets on many related work condition issues for company management and personnel officers.

(12) BIPPP, vol. 11, no. 2, 1955, 8-18, 11.

(13) BIPPP, vol. 10, no. 2, 1954, 7-17, 7.

(14) Industrial Welfare Division, Department of Labour and National Service, Australian Textile Mills: A Guide to Good Working Conditions, Bulletin no. 7, Commonwealth of Australia, 1946, 29.

(15) W. Hollway, ‘Efficiency and Welfare: Industrial Psychology at Rowntree’s Cocoa Works’, Theory and Psychology, vol. 3, no. 3, 1993, 303-322; L. Taksa, op.cit.

(16) BIPPP, vol. 6, no. 1, 1950, 28-35, 31.

(17) PM, vol., 7, no. 2, 1969, 103-109, 104.

(18) BIPPP, vol. 23, no. 3, 1967, 169.

(19) PM, vol. 2, no. 2, 1964, 59.

(20) PM, vol. 5, no. 2, 1964, 77.

(21) BIPPP, vol. 23, no. 1, 1967, 36.

(22) BIPPP, vol. 7, no. 4, 1951, 22.

(23) W. Hollway, ‘Masters and Men in the Transition from Factory Hands to Sentimental Workers’, in D. Collinson & J. Hearn, Men as managers, managers as men : critical perspectives on men, masculinities, and managements, Sage Publications, London, 1996, 25-42.

(24) G. Deleuze, ‘Postscript on Control Societies ‘, Negotiations: 1972-1990, trans. M. Joughin, Columbia University Press, New York, [1990] 1995, 177-182.

(25) M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. A. Sheridan, Penguin, London, 1991, 26.

(26) S. Perlman, ‘Preface ‘, in M. Karson, American Labor Unions and Politics, 1900-1918, Carbondale, IL, 1958, v; quoted in E. Faue, ‘Gender and the Reconstruction of Labor History: An Introduction ‘, Labor History, vol. 34, nos. 2-3, 1993, 169-177, 169.