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- Title: Organisational Consolidation and Unionateness in the NSW Public Service Association, 1899-1939 (New South Wales Public Service Association) (Report)
- Author : Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
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In 1999, the NSW Public Service Association (PSA) celebrated its centenary. Its 44,400 members at that time made it the third largest state-based union in Australia, and amongst the largest 15 unions nationally. The PSA remains one of the largest state-based unions in Australia. It is the oldest continuous, general association of public servants in Australia, and an early example of white-collar unionism as well as a unique variant of 'industry'-based organisation. New South Wales Public Service Association female activists also played a leading role in the feminist movement and the long campaign for equal pay from World War I. (1) For these reasons, the PSA foreshadowed at an early stage developments which became far more widespread in Australian unionism during the past 40 years. Yet the PSA has attracted little attention from scholars. One solitary article on the origins of the PSA by Peter Sheldon only examines the period to 1908, (2) and another article by Ray Markey focuses narrowly on women's organisation in the PSA. (3) Given the subsequent importance of the PSA, it seems apposite to examine its overall development over a longer period. This is especially important for three reasons. First, the PSA was the forerunner and most substantial example of a number of similar state-based and Commonwealth public service organisations from the early twentieth century. (4) This first wave of white-collar unionism in Australia has not received the same attention of as the second wave from the 1950s to 1970s. Second, the nature of the PSA was unusual at the time of its formation. Apart from being predominantly white collar and public service based, the PSA was formed outside the state arbitration system that has so frequently been associated with union formation and growth in Australia in the early twentieth century. (5) Third, Sheldon's characterisation of the PSA as a 'middle-class' union also indicates its distinctiveness on another level.
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