Book review: Australia's own cold war: The waterfront under Menzies

In recent years, political debate about industrial
relations has been dominated by the Howard
government’s tendency to strengthen the position
of employers against employees. As Tom
Sheridan’s fine book, Australia’s Own Cold War:
The Waterfront Under Menzies, demonstrates,
there has been nothing new in Australian
history in the Howard government’s concentration
on the relationship between business and
labour. The long era of the Menzies governments
during the 1950s and 1960s was also
dominated by industrial struggles and ideological
conflict in the workplace.