Liam Byrne: No Power Greater

Liam Byrne will be discussing his book No Power Greater: A History of Union Action in Australia, in conversation with Professor Sean Scalmer (University of Melbourne), with time for audience questions after the talk.

In this lively history of Australian unionism, Liam Byrne seeks to illuminate what unionism means, exploring why successive generations of working people organised unions and nurtured them for future generations. Foregrounding the pioneering efforts of women workers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers, culturally and linguistically diverse workers, and LGBTIQA+ workers as central to the union story today, Byrne uses case studies of worker action and struggle to better understand the lived reality of unionism, its challenges and its contribution to Australian life.