Resources

Primary sources

Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch) Archives, ANF Library. Elizabeth St HQ

(1) ANF(Vic) website (Respect Our Work campaign):
ANF EBA 2011, Respect Our Work Campaign, Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch)

(2) The University of Melbourne Archives: Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch), Details

(3) Australian Trade Union Archives (online):

History of the union:

Australian Nursing Federation (iii) (1988 - )
http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0210b.htm

Australian Nursing Federation (ii) (1971)
http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0211b.htm

Royal Australian Nursing Federation (ii) (1971 - 1988)
http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0750b.htm

Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association (1904 - 1934)
http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE1056b.htm

Royal Victorian College of Nursing (1934 - 1975)
http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE1057b.htm

Royal Australian Nursing Federation (i) (1955 - 1970)
http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE1059b.htm

1986 strike:

Victorian Nurses Strike (1985 - 1986)
http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE1530b.htm

Secondary sources

(1) Union organising in the ANF(Vic):

James L. Tierney and Christina Cregan, “Strategy and Structure in a Successful Organising Union: The Transformational Role of Branch Secretaries in the Australian Nursing Federation, Victorian Branch, 1989–2009,” Labour History 104 (May 2013): 149–170.

James L. Tierney and Christina Cregan, "A Blueprint for Union Organising: The Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch"). Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies (in press, June 2013)

Christina Cregan, Tim Bartram and Pauline Stanton, “Organising During a Mobilisation Campaign: The Impact of Social Identity and Transformational Leadership on the Collectivist Attitudes of Union Members,” British Journal of Industrial Relations 47 (2009): 701-722.

(2) Other studies:

Tim Bartram, Pauline Stanton and Elovaris, Lauren. “The Role of Job Representatives in an Organising Strategy: The Case of the Australian Nursing Federation,” Journal of Industrial Relations 50 (2008): 25–44.

Judith Bessant. “Good Women and Good Nurses: Conflicting Identities in the Victorian Nurses’ Strikes, 1985-1986,” Labour History 63 (1992).

John Buchanan, Tanya Bretherton, Sue Bearfield and Stephen Jackson, Stable but Critical: The Working Conditions of Victorian Public Sector Nurses (ACIRRT: Sydney, 2004).

John Buchanan, and Gillian Considine, “Combating Work Intensification: Do Nurse-Patient Ratios Reduce Workloads in Australian Public Hospitals?” Paper presented at the 23rd International Labour Process Conference, Glasgow, UK, 27th October 2005

Isla Colson, More Than Just the Money: 100 Years of the Victorian Nurses Union (Australian Nursing Federation: Melbourne, 2001)

Katherine Ellinghaus “The Radicalisation of Florence Nightingale: The Victorian Nurses’ Strike of 1986.” Honours thesis, University of Melbourne, 1995, 39.

Carol Fox, Enough is Enough: The 1986 Victorian Nurses’ Strike (University of New South Wales: Sydney, 1991).

Heather Gardner and Brigid McCoppin, “The Politicisation of Australian Nurses: Victoria 1984-1986,” Politics 22 (1987): 19-34.

Suzanne Gordon, John, Buchanan and Tanya Bretherton, Safety in Numbers (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2008).

Pauline Stanton, “Changing Employment Relationships in Victorian Public Hospitals: The Kennett Years, 1992–1999.” PhD thesis, La Trobe University, 2002.