Professor EmeritusGreg Patmore

Greg's main research interests are labour history, comparative labour history, co-operative history, democracy in a digital economy and employee voice. His publications have covered a wide range of issues including railway labour relations, the impact of community on industrial relations, the legal regulation of industrial relations, co-operative growth, decline and revival, employee representation plans, decent work, the history of banking, Australian labour history and historical methodology.

With Nikola Balnave (Macquarie University) and Olivera Marjanovic (Macquarie University) he published in 2023 a history of Australian co-operatives from 1827-2023 for Routledge based on extensive archival and interview research. He is currently examining the history of democracy in the digital economy and how collective ownership provides an alternative to web giants such as Facebook and Google. His publications include Worker Voice (The University of Liverpool Press), which examined schemes for worker voice at the plant level in Australia, Canada, Germany, the US and the UK in the inter-war period, a history of the rise and fall of the Consumer Co-operative of Berkeley (Routledge), a co-authored history of the regional health insurer Westfund (Federation Press), a co-edited global history of consumer co-operatives (Brill), a co-edited book on USA and Australia comparative labour history (University of Illinois Press), a co-authored global history of co-operatives (Routledge),and a co-edited comparative study of Australian and Italian co-operatives (University of Florence Press).