Associate Professor Bradley Bowden

B Arts (Hons), PhD

Associate Professor, Griffith Business School
Workplace Health and Safety Officer, Griffith Business School

Contact details for Associate Professor Bradley Bowden

Research expertise

• Labour and social history
• Work and work reorganisation in the Queensland coal industry
• Strategic management and organisational change
• Occupational change
• Occupational health and safety and the relationship between work and community

Current teaching expertise

• Health and safety
• Labour and economic history
• Workplace and organisational change in the minerals industry
• Social history of late nineteenth century Queensland

Publications

Refereed journal articles

• Bowden, B., 2007, 'Sea-changers and shifting political loyalties in the Northern Rivers of NSW 1966-2007’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, November 2007, 93 (2), pp. 199-217.
• Di Milia, L. and Bowden, B., 2007, 'Unanticipated Safety Outcomes: Shiftwork and drive-in, drive-out workforces in Queensland’s Bowen Basin', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. April 2007, 45 (1), pp. 100-12.
• Bowden, B. and Penrose, B., 2006, 'Dust, Contractors, Politics and Silicosis: Conflicting Narratives and the Queensland Royal Commission into Miners Phthisis, 1911', Australian Historical Studies. October 2006, 128: pp. 89-107.
• Bowden, B., 2006, 'An Economy ill-suited to younger workers: Child and Youth Workforce participation in Colonial Queensland, 1886-1901', Australian Economic History Review. July 2006, 46 (2), pp. 111-29.
• Bowden, B. and Penrose. B., 2006, 'The Origins of Child Labour in Australia, 1880-1907', Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, April 2006, 22 (2), pp. 127-35.
• Bowden, B., 2004, 'The Ties of Place: Contractors and Employer Strategies on the Western Canadian and Central Queensland Coalfields', Relations Industrielles, Summer 2004, 59 (3), pp. 490-512.
• Murray, J., Jordan. P. J. and Bowden, B., 2004, 'An Empirical Study of Job Design in the Australian Call Centre Industry', International Journal of Employment Studies, October 2004, 12 (2), pp. 3-26.
• Bowden, B. and Bowden, T., 2004, "'The women do the machinery': Craft, Gender and Work Transformation in the Brisbane Boot Trade", 1869-1895’, Labour History, 86, May 2004, pp. 75-92.
• Stewart, G. and Bowden, B., 2004, 'The 1946 Meat Strike in Queensland – A Regional Perspective', International Journal of Employment Studies, April 2004, 12 (1), pp. 19-42.
• Bowden, B., 2003, 'Regulating Outsourcing: The Use of Contractors on the Central Queensland Coalfields, 1974-2003', Labour and Industry, 14 (1), August 2003, pp. 41-57.

Books and monographs

• Bowden, B. and Kellett, J., Editors, 2003, 'Transforming Labour', proceedings of the Eighth National Labour History Conference, Brisbane Labour History Association, Brisbane, 378 pp.
• Bowden, B., in press, 'Against the Odds: The History of the United Firefighters Union in Queensland, 1917 to 2008', Federation Press, Sydney, 2008.
  

Book chapters

• Bowden, B., in press, 'No Place for Children: The Demand for Child and Adolescent Labor in Nineteenth Century Australia', in Lieten, K. and Van Nederveen Meerkerk, E., eds, Child Labour’s Global Past, Peter Lang, Amsterdam, forthcoming, 2009.
• Bowden, B., 2007, 'Tracing the Rise and Fall of ‘Constituencies’ in Regional New South Wales', in Clune, D. and Turner, K., eds., Writing Party History, Parliament of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 103-12..
• Bowden, B., 2007, 'The use of child and youth labour in industrialising Australia: Theoretical and practical lessons for modern industrialising labour markets', in Gupta, P., Jain, R. M., and Dhar, U., Enhancing Enterprise Competitiveness (Marketing, People, IT and Entrepreneurship), Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2007, pp. 341-51.
• Bowden, B., 2006, 'The Hunter (1856-1950)', Jim Hagan ed., People & Politics in Regional New South Wales: 1856 to the 1950s, Vol. 1, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, pp. 5-28.
• Bowden, B., 2006, 'The Northern Rivers (1856-1950)', Jim Hagan ed., People and Politics in Regional New South Wales: 1856 to the 1950s, Vol. 1, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, pp. 53-77.
• Bowden, B., 2006, 'The Northern Rivers (1950-2006)', Jim Hagan, ed., People abd Politics in Regional New South Wales: the 1950s to 2006, Vol. 2, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006,  pp. 5-28.
• Bowden, B., 2006, 'The Hunter (1950-2006)', Jim Hagan, ed., People and Politics in Regional New South Wales: the 1950s to 2006, Vol. 2, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, pp. 49-72.
• Bowden, B., 2004, 'Achieving More with Less: Trends and Debates in the Transformation of Work', in Verma, P. and Bishnoi, T. R. eds., Competitiveness of Indian Industry: Empirical Studies, Wisdom Publications, Delhi, 2004, pp. 177-86.

Refereed conference papers

• Bowden, B., 2005, 'A World Dominated by Youth: Child and youth labour in Queensland, 1885-1900', in Patmore, G., Shields, J., and Balnave, N. Eds., Ninth National Labour History Conference: the past is before us, Sydney University, Sydney, 30 June - 23 July, pp. 37-45.
• Di Milla, L., and Bowden, B., 2004, 'Changing Work Practices and Their Impact on Driver Fatigue', in Stewart, G. and Hyland, P. Eds., proceedings of the 12th Annual International Employment Relations Association Conference: Regionalism and Globalisation - The Challenge for Employment Relations, Central Queensland University, 5-8 July.
• Bowden, B. and Kellett, J., 2003, 'Introduction - Transforming Labour: Work, Workers, Struggle and Change', in Bowden, B. and Kellett, J., Eds., Transforming Labour - Work, Workers, Struggle and Change, proceedings of the Eighth National Labour History Conference, Brisbane Labour History Association, Brisbane, pp. 10-12.
• Insch, A. and Bowden, B., 2003, 'The healthy alternative? Transformation of production and work organisation in the Australian chicken meat sector', Bowden, B. and Kellett, J., Eds., Transforming Labour - Work, Workers, Struggle and Change, proceedings of the Eighth National Labour History Conference, Brisbane Labour History Association, Brisbane, pp. 170-76.

Other publications

• Bowden, B., 2005, 'Unionism in Turbulent Times – The 120^th Anniversary of the Trades and Labour Council', Union News, 19 (1), April, Brisbane: Bacon Factories Employee Union.