Staff Profiles

Verity Burgmann Phone: 8344 7943 Email: vnb@unimelb.edu.au Office: Medley Building Room 441

Background

Verity Burgmann was born and grew up in Sydney. She completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science at the London School of Economics and her PhD at the Australian National University. She is a Professor in the Department and has taught here since 1988. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia in 1999.

Research

Labour movement politics and history. New social movements and protest movements, such as anti-globalisation radicalism and environmentalism.

Reason in Revolt: The Role of Intellectuals in Australian Radicalism. (with Stuart Macintyre and Andrew Milner)

Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction

Subjects Taught

• 1st year: Australian Society
• 2nd/3rd year: Change & Conflict in Australian Society
• 2nd/3rd year: Modern Political Thought

Supervision

Labour movement politics and history. New social movements and protest movements, such as anti-globalisation radicalism and environmentalism.

Recent Publications

Books

Verity Burgmann, Power, Profit & Protest. Australian Social Movements and Globalisation, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003, viii + 392 pp.

Verity Burgmann, with Colin McNaughton and Jennifer Penney, Unions and the Environment, Australian Conservation Foundation, Melbourne, 2002, 36 pp.

Book Chapters

Verity Burgmann, ‘Striking Back Against Empire: Working Class Responses to Globalization’ in John Hawley and Revathi Krishnaswamy (eds), The Postcolonial and the Global, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2008, pp.238-251.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Language and the Labor Tradition’ in Tim Battin (ed.), A Passion for Politics. Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox, Pearson Education Australia, Sydney, 2005, pp.15-26.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Moloch’s Little Mate: The Ruling Class and the Australian Labor Party’ in Nathan Hollier (ed.), Ruling Australia: the Power, Privilege and Politics of the New Ruling Class, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne, 2004, pp.48-69.

Verity Burgmann and Andrew Ure, ‘Resistance to Neoliberalism in Australia and Oceania’ in François Polet (ed.), Globalizing Resistance. The State of Struggle, Pluto Press, London, 2004.

Andrew Ure et Verity Burgmann, ‘Les résistances au néolibéralisme en Australie et en Océanie’ in Forum mondiale des alternatives, Mondialisation des resistances. L’état des lutttes 2004, Centre Tricontinental, Paris, 2004 (French translation of previous entry).

Verity Burgmann, ‘Active Citizenship against Marketisation: Community Resistance to Neo-Liberalism’ in Glenn Patmore (ed.), The Vocal Citizen. Labor Essays 2004, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne, 2004, pp.116-131.

Verity Burgmann, ‘A sorry tale of exclusion: the Howard Governments versus indigenous Australians, 1996-2003’ in Doris Weiss (ed.), Social Exclusion. An Approach to the Australian Case, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2003, pp.349-374.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Critics of Caucus’ in John Faulkner & Stuart Macintyre, True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, pp.236-49, 309-311.

Journal Articles

‘The Green Bans Movement: Workers’ Power and Ecological Radicalism in Australia in the 1970s’, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol.2, no.1, Spring 2008, pp. 63-90.

Simon Booth and Verity Burgmann, ‘Australian Radical Intellectuals and the Imagining of Counter-Hegemonic Alternatives’, Social Alternatives, vol.26, no.1, 2007, pp.26-31.

Verity Burgmann (translated by Akira Suzuki), ‘Labour and the New Social Movements: the Australian Story’, Journal of Ohara Institute for Social Research, no. 584, July 2007, pp.1-23.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Archaeologies of Anti-Capitalist Utopianism’, Arena Journal, nos. 25/26, 2006, pp.99-112.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Contesting the Injuries of Class’, Journal of Australian Studies, no. 89, December 2006, pp.91-104.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Class and the Politics of Identity’ (Japanese translation), Part I, Seikatsu Keizai Seisaku, no. 113, June 2006, pp.22-33.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Class and the Politics of Identity’ (Japanese translation), Part II, Seikatsu Keizai Seisaku, no. 114, July 2006, pp.32-41.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Las peculiaridades del trabajo en Australia’, Istor, No. 23, Invierno de 2005, pp.27-55.

Verity Burgmann, ‘From Syndicalism to Seattle’, International Labor and Working-Class History, No.67, Spring 2005, pp.1-21.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Hard Times but No Hard Words: A Rejoinder’, International Labor and Working-Class History, No.67, Spring 2005, pp.64-78.

Verity Burgmann, ‘The Beginning of Politics and the First Human’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol.39, no.1, March 2004, pp.197-204.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Labour/Le Travail and Canadian Working-Class History: A View From Afar’, Labour/Le Travail (Canada), No.50, Fall 2002, pp.23-38.

Conference Papers

Verity Burgmann, ‘The IWW in International Perspective: comparing the North American and Australasian Wobblies’ in Julie Kimber, Peter Love and Phillip Deery (edsw), Labour Traditions. Papers from the Tenth National Labour History Conference, University of Melbourne, 4-6 July 2007, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne, pp.36-43 ISBN: 978-0-9803883-1-2

Simon Booth, Verity Burgmann, Stuart Macintyre, Andrew Milner & Matthew Ryan, ‘Vanguards and avant-gardes: the “Reason in Revolt” online project on political and cultural radicalism’ in Greg Patmore, John Shields and Nikola Balnave (eds), The Past is Before Us. The Ninth National Labour History Conference. The University of Sydney 30 June- 2 July 2005, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History with the Business & Labour History Group, The University of Sydney, 2005, pp.29-36.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Striking back against empire: autonomist Marxism and globalisation’ in J. Lough (ed.), Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004, Australasian Political Studies Association, Adelaide, 29 September-1 October 2004.

Verity Burgmann, ‘The “cancer stage” of capitalism and the politics of resistance’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, Australian National University, 2-4 October 2002 (http://arts.anu.edu.au/sss/apsa).

Verity Burgmann, ‘No Profits on a Dead Planet?’, Proceedings of the Australasian Political Studies AssociationConference, Parliament House, Brisbane, 24-26 September 2001 (http//www.gu.edu.au/school/ppp/APSA2001/).

Verity Burgmann, ‘“Cognitive mapping of a new and global type”: Seattle and the Power of Identity’ in Phil Griffiths and Rosemary Webb, Proceedings of the ‘Work/Organisation/Struggle’ Conference, ANU, Canberra, 19-21 April 2001, pp.30-37.

Other publications

Verity Burgmann, ‘Improving well-being’, Australian Humanist, New Series, No. 87, Spring 2007, pp.5-7.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Syndicalism’, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2007.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Green Bans’, The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2007.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Foreword’ to Paul Gilby, Power and National Politics. VCE National Politics Units 3 & 4, Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers, 2nd edition, 2006, p.vi.

Review of Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer, Activist Wisdom. Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006, in Labour History, no. 91, November 2006, pp.205-206.

Verity Burgmann et Andrew Ure, ‘Frondes contre le gouvernement australien’, Le Monde diplomatique, Manière de voir 84, Décembre 2005-Janvier 2006, pp.92-93.

Verity Burgmann, ‘George Waite’, Australian Dictionary of Biography. Supplement. 1580-1980,Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp.393-94.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Foreword’ to Paul Gilby, Power and National Politics. VCE National Politics Units 3 & 4, Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers, 2005, p.vi.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Australian Labor Party (ALP)’, World Book Online Reference Center, World Book, 2005.  Inc. 30 Nov. 2005 www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar038535.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Class in contemporary Australia’ in Nathan Hollier (ed.), Ruling Australia: the Power, Privilege and Politics of the New Ruling Class, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne, 2004, pp.154-181.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Syndicalism’, Seeing Red, Issue 2, September 2004, p.40.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Anti-capitalism and anti-corporate globalisation’, Sociology Extra resource centre, Allen & Unwin, www.allenandunwin.com/academic.sociology.asp, 2004.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Latham’s Ladder’, Arena Magazine, no.69, Feb-Mar 2004, pp.28-30.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Green bans’ in John Barry and Gene Frankland (eds), International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Politics, Routledge, London, 2001, p.239.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Industrial Workers of the World’ in Wilfrid Prest (ed.), The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2001, p.280.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Unity in adversity?’, Sunday Age, 23 September 2001, Sunday Forum, p.21.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Class on Campus’, Farrago, Edition 6, 2001, p.30.

Verity Burgmann, ‘Morality: a Labour Movement Perspective’, Dialogue, vol.20, no.1, 2001, pp.30-36.