Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.

Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations' differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I's impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other's trade union and political cultures.

Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, Marjorie A. Jerrard, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Diane Kirkby, Elizabeth Malcolm, Patrick O'Leary, Greg Patmore, Scott Stephenson, Peta Stevenson-Clarke, Shelton Stromquist, and Nathan Wise

| Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments US and Australian Labor: A Comparative and Transnational Perspective Greg Patmore and Shelton Strom Part 1. The Great War: Repression and Political Countermobilization Quite Like Ourselves: Opposition to Military Compulsion during the Great War in the United States a Workers against Warfare: The American and Australian Experiences before and during World War I Veri Domestic "Dogs of War" Unleashed: The Comparative Fates of Municipal Labor and Socialist Politics i In Not a Few Respects, a Common History: Women, Wartime Lawmaking, and the Prosecution of Dissenters Part 2. Varieties of Labor Coercion From Whips to Wages: From Coercive to Incentive-Driven Labor Jennie Jeppesen Union-Avoidance Strategies in the Meat Industry in Australia and the United States Marjorie A. Jerr Part 3. Ethnicity and Class Identity: The Irish Diaspora in Australia and the United States Catholic Irish Australia and the Labor Movement: Race in Australia and Nationalism in Ireland, 1880 Gatekeepers and "Americanizers": Irish Americans and the Creation of a Multicultural Labor Movement Part 4. Working-Class Collective Action and Labor Regulation Causes of Railroad Labor Conflict: The Case of Queensland, Australia, and the Northern US Plains, 18 Comparative Mutinies: Case Studies of Working-Class Agency in the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regim Part 5. Economic Democracy and Working-Class Institutions How to Build a Trade Union Oligarchy: Guidance from the United States and Australia, 1886–1970 Scot The Experience of Labor in the Age of Reform: Workers' Subjectivity, Welfare Legislation, and Liber Controlling Consumption: A Comparative History of Rochdale Consumer Cooperatives in Australia and th Part 6. Transnational Working-Class Politics Anarchy at the Antipodes: Australian Anarchists and Their American Connections, 1885–1914 Tom Goyen An Agitator Abroad: P. H. Hickey, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism in the United States, New Zeal Harry Bridges's Australia, Australia's Harry Bridges Robert Cherny Conclusion: Harvesting the Fruits of Transnational and Comparative History Shelton Stromquist and G Contributors Index | "Two of the leading comparative labour historians in Australia and the U.S., Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, have joined forces to produce an outstanding edited collection comparing key aspects of Australian and American labour history. . . . Their volume is a fine example of the enormous benefits and promises that such a combined approach brings to labour history."...