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Greg Patmore

Greg Patmore

BEc(Hons); PhD
Professor of Business and Labour History

Room 121
C37A - Burren Street
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Greg Patmore is Professor of Business and Labour History and  Director of the Business and Labour History Group and the Co-operative Research  Group in the School of Business, The University of Sydney. He also chairs the  School's Ethics Committee. His main research interests are labour history,  comparative labour history, Rochdale consumer co-operatives, employee  representation and the impact of industrialisation and deindustrialisation on  regional economies.

He is currently has ARC Discovery funding for a history of  non-union employee representation in Australia, Canada, Germany, the US and the  UK in the interwar period focusing on employee representation plans, works  councils, union management co-operative committees and works committees. Along  with John Shields and Harry Knowles, he has been commissioned by Citigroup to  undertake a history of its operations in Australia. With Nikola Balnave from  Macquarie University, he is also researching the history of Rochdale consumer  co-operatives in Australia and undertaking a commissioned history of the  Barossa Community Store in Nuriootpa, South Australia. He is also undertaking a  history of the Berkeley Co-operative in California, which was the largest  consumer co-operative in North America. Under the auspices of the Co-operative  Research Group, he is undertaking a project with  colleagues at the University of Trento in Italy comparing the Australian and  Italian co-operative movements. Greg is also a member of the Steering Committee  of the Consumers Co-operative Global History Project, which is based in  Stockholm.

Greg was President of the Australian Society for the Study of  Labour History (ASSLH) from 1986 to 1998 was editor of its journal, Labour  History, from 1999-2010. He is  currently on the editorial boards of Labour History and International Labor  and Working Class History. He serves in advisory capacity to Australian  co-operative movement in regard to the UN 2012 International Year of  Co-operatives and was recently appointed to the Steering Committee of the New Global  300 Initiative of the International Co-operative Alliance in Geneva, which is mapping  the impact of co-operatives internationally. He has held visiting positions at  the University of California (Berkeley), Cardiff Business School and Georgetown  University. He is also a former chair of Work and Organisational Studies in the  School of Business and Pro Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business.

Research Grants

2011-2012

Non-union employee representation in the workplace: debates and practice in Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States 1914-1939

This project uses comparative historical data to provide a clear direction for public policy in the development of frontier technology for employment relations infrastructure at the workplace level. This infrastructure would maximise workplace productivity, increase job satisfaction and provide a greater voice for employees in the workplace.

ARC Discovery Project

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Research Expertise

  • Co-operatives
  • Impact of industrialisation and deindustrialisation
  • Labour history
  • Locality and community
  • Steel industry in the early decades of the 20th Century
  • Trade union growth

Videos

2012 is the UN Year of the Co-operative. Professor Greg Patmore discusses the importance of co-ops in the developing world.

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