James Maher interviewed by John Merritt [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3048038
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Maher, James, 1927-2009, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item.
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2003 Nov
- 7 digital audio tapes (ca. 374 min.)
- Summary:
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James (Jim) Maher was a long serving official of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Trades Union (SDA). Maher discusses some events which were newsworthy in his day; the organisational problems of shop assistants' unionism; his philosophy as a union leader; he comments on the industrial and political events associated with the 1950s 'split' in the Australian Labor Party (ALP); being identified with the anti-communist Right.
Maher gives an account of his boyhood and early working life; his years as a union organiser in country Victoria revealing beliefs and values common among Australians at that time, but less evident today; he discusses the modern trend towards careerism in the trade union movement and in political life; the disappearance of service in the retail industry; his service to workers in the retail industry.
- Biography/History:
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James Maher, retired trade union official.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Nov. 18 & 19, 2003 at Melbourne, Vic.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-208179967
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (10 leaves) and corrected transcript (typescript, 186 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Trade union officals
- Other authors/contributors:
- Merritt, John, 1936-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2073 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2003
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