Becoming an industry: The struggle of social and community workers for award coverage, 1976-2001

摘要: Until the 1990s, most workers employed by non-government community services organizations were excluded from basic right of Australian `industrial citizenship' — award coverage. Expected to be a formality newly-formed Social Welfare Union, establishing an for non-profit social and sector became grinding struggle at both federal state levels against resistance Liberal-National coalition Labor party governments, major charities other unions stretching 1970s through 1990s. Our explanation why industrial recognition was so long hard emphasizes lack care work contradictions among between their roles as professionals, caring others, unionists factors that led internal, institutional, strategic cultural workers.