Prof Sean Scalmer
Professor of Australian History
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
124 Scholarly works
7 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Research contracts (non-grants)
CFMEU History Project
2026
Journal article
Globalizing Nonviolence: Sociology Meets History
DOI: 10.1007/s10767-026-09594-02026
Journal article
BOOK REVIEWS
DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2026.142026
Journal article
Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years
DOI: 10.1017/S14792443251001032025
Journal article
Michael Quinlan, Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851–1880
DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2025.162022
Research grants (international)
Direct Action and Democracy: Utopia, Experience, Threat
2022
Research grants (other domestic)
A History of the Eight Hours Movement
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2025
Journal article
Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008
DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2025.24699312024
Journal article
Reviewing victories, renewing struggles: The ACTU Congress, Adelaide, South Australia, 4–6 June 2024
DOI: 10.1177/002218562412938042024
Journal article
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
DOI: 10.1111/ajph.130202024
Journal article
Union Struggles and Working Time in Australia: Past, Present, and Future
DOI: 10.1353/iur.2024.a9288362023
Journal article
Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept
DOI: 10.1017/S00208590230003912023
Journal article
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia
DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2023.2230665
RECENT PROJECTS
2013
Research Grant
Graham Berry and the Making of Colonial Democracy
2009
Research Contracts
Remaking Australian Politics: Electioneering From the 19th Century to the 21st