Greg Patmore
BEc(Hons); PhD
Professor of Business and Labour History
greg.patmore@sydney.edu.au
Room 206
H69 - Economics and Business Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9036 9200
Fax: +61 2 9351 4567
Greg Patmore is Professor of Business and Labour History and Director of the Business and Labour History Group. 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 undertaking comprehensive research on the steel industry in Canada, Australia and the US in the early decades of the twentieth century, focusing on trade union growth, employee representation and the importance of locality. With Ray Markey from the Auckland University of Technology, he currently has ARC Discovery funding for a history of non-union employee representation in Australia. 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 the University of Western Sydney, he is also researching the history of Rochdale consumer co-operatives in Australia.
Greg is Treasurer of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) and was President of the National Society from 1986 to 1998. He is Editor of Labour History and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Canadian journal Labour/Le Travail. He also serves on the Governing Council of the History Co-operative in the US. The History Co-operative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering online access to history scholarship through journals such as American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, Labour History, Labour/Le Travail and Health and History.
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