By Emeritus Professor Michael Garry Quinlan

Books

Maxwell-Stewart H; Quinlan M, 2022, Unfree Workers Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860, Springer Nature

Quinlan MG, 2020, Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation Australia 1851-1880, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003018971

Sheldon P; Gregson S; Irving T; Belzer M; Thornquist A; Lippel K; Thebaud-Mony A; Nossar I; Walters D; Johnstone R; Quinlan M, 2020, The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety: Historical and Emerging Trends, Sheldon P; Gregson S; Lansbury R; Sanders K, (eds.), Routledge, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429265679

Quinlan MG, 2017, The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850, Routledge, New York, https://www.routledge.com/The-Origins-of-Worker-Mobilisation-Australia-1788-1850/Quinlan/p/book/9781138084087

Quinlan MG, 2014, Ten Pathways to Death and Disaster: Learning from Fatal Incidents in Mines and Other High Hazard Workplaces, The Federation Press, Sydney NSW, https://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781862879775

Johnstone R; Mccrystal S; Nossar I; Quinlan MG; Rawling M; Riley J, 2012, Beyond Employment: The Legal Regulation of Work Relationships, Federation Press, Sydney

Walters D; Johnstone R; Frick K; Quinlan M; Baril-Gingras G; Thébaud-Mony A, 2011, Regulating workplace risks: A comparative study of inspection regimes in times of change

Walters D; Johnstone R; Frick K; Quinlan M; Baril-Gingras G; Thébaud-Mony A, 2011, Regulating Workplace Risks, Edward Elgar Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9780857931658

Quinlan MG; Bohle PL; Lamm F, 2010, Managing Occupational Health and Safety: A Multidisciplinay Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, Melbourne

Bohle PL; Quinlan MG, 2000, Managing Occupational Health and Safety: A Multidisciplinay Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, Melbourne

, 2000, Systematic Occupational Health and Safety Management: Perspectives on an International Development, Frick K; Jensen PL; Quinlan MG; Wilthagen T, (eds.), Pergamon/Elsevier, Oxford UK

Mayhew C; Quinlan MG, 1998, Outsourcing and Occupational Health and Safety: A Comparative Study of Factory-based and Outworkers in the Australian TCF Industry, Industrial Relations Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney

Book Chapters

Quinlan M, 2024, 'Subcontracting, Repeat Latent Failures and Workplace Disasters', in Springerbriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, pp. 27 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35163-1_3

Quinlan M, 2020, 'Postscript: Inequality, Deprivation/Resistance and Building a Sustainable Society', in Sheldon P; Gregson S; Lansbury R; Sanders K (ed.), The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety: Historical and Emerging Trends., Routledge, New York, pp. 161 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429265679

Maxwell-Stewart H; Quinlan M, 2019, 'Voting with Their Feet Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict Australia', in Rediker M; Chakraborty T; van Rossum M (ed.), A Global History of Runaways Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850, University of California Press, pp. 156 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520973060-010

Muntaner C; Sridharan S; Chung H; Solar O; Quinlan M; Vergara M; Benach J, 2016, 'The solution space: Developing research and policy agendas to eliminate employment-related health inequalities', in Financial and Economic Crises and their Impact on Health and Social Well Being, pp. 488 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315226927

Quinlan MG; Bohle P, 2015, 'Job Quality: The Impact of Work Organisation on Health', in Knox A; Warhurst C (ed.), Job Quality in Australia: Perspectives, Problems and Proposals, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 63 - 83

Quinlan MG; Thebaud-Mony A, 2015, 'La sous-traitance : un outil majeur de la transformation du systeme', in Thebaud-Mony A; Davezies P; Vogel L; Volkoff S (ed.), Les Risques du Travail, La Decouverte, paris, pp. 44 - 52

Quinlan MG; Bohle P, 2014, 'Overstretched and Unreciprocated Commitment: Reviewing Research on the Occupational Health and Safety Effects of Downsizing and Job Insecurity', in Navarro V; Muntaner C (ed.), The Financial and Economic Crises and their impact on Health and Social Well-being, Baywood Publishing Co, Inc, New York, pp. 175 - 217, https://www.baywood.com/books/previewbook.asp?id=TFA

Quinlan MG, 2007, 'Managing Contractors', in Australian Master OHS & Environment Guide, CCH Australia, Australia, pp. 337 - 351

Quinlan MG, 2006, 'Contextual Factors Shaping the Purpose of Labour Law: A Comparative Historical Perspective', in Arup C; Gahan P; Howe J; Johnstone R; Mitchell R; O'Donnell A (ed.), Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation: Essays on the Construction, Constitution and Regulation of Labour Markets and Work Relationships, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 21 - 42

Quinlan MG; Mayhew CR; Johnstone R, 2006, 'Trucking Tragedies: The Hidden Disaster of Mass Death in the Long-Haul Road Transport Industry', in Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response, Baywood Publishing Company,Inc., Amityville, New York, pp. 19 - 63

Quinlan MG, 2005, 'The Hidden Epidemic of Injuries and Illness Associated with the Global Expansion of Precarious Employment', in Peterson CL; Mayhew C (ed.), Occupational Health and Safety: International Influcences and the `New` Epidemics, Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., Amityville, New York, pp. 53 - 74

Quinlan MG, 2004, 'Australia, 1788 - 1902: A Workingman`s Paradise?', in Hay D; Craven P (ed.), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562 - 1955, University of North Carolina Press, North Carolina, USA, pp. 219 - 250

Quinlan MG; Bohle PL, 2004, 'Contingent work and occupational safety', in Barling J; Frone MR (ed.), The Psychology of Workplace Safety, APA Books, Washington, pp. 81 - 106

Quinlan MG, 2004, 'Flexible work and organisational arrangements', in Bluff E; Gunningham N; Johnstone R (ed.), OHS Regulation for a Changing World of Work, Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 120 - 145

Quinlan MG, 2002, 'Outsourcing', in Smith R; Berry A (ed.), Australian Master OHS and Environment Guide 2003, CCH, Sydney, pp. 265 - 282

Quinlan MG; Mayhew C, 2000, 'Precarious Employment, Work Re-Organisation and the Fracturing of OHS Management', in Systematic Occupational Health and Safety Management: Perspectives on an International Development, Pergamon/Elsevier, Oxford UK, pp. 175 - 198

Frick K; Jensen PL; Quinlan MG; Wilthagen T, 2000, 'Systematic Occupational Health and Safety Management - An Introduction to a New Strategy for Occupational Safety, Health & Well-being.', in Systematic Occupational Health and Safety Management: Perspectives on an International Development, Pergamon/Elsevier, Oxford UK, pp. 1 - 14

Quinlan MG; Mayhew C, 2000, 'The Relationship between Precarious Employment and Patterns of Occupational Violence: Survey Evidence from Seven Occupations', in Health Effects of the New Labour Market, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 183 - 205

Quinlan MG; Mayhew C, 1999, 'Changing Work Relationships in Australia', in Changing Work Relationships in Industrialised Economies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 147 - 167

Quinlan MG, 1998, 'Trade Unions', in The Oxford Companion to History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 647 - 649

Quinlan MG, 1997, 'Industrial Relations Policy', in Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia. (6th Edition), Longman Cheshire, Sydney, pp. 436 - 451

Quinlan MG, 1996, 'A participatory approach to occupational health and safety as a vehicle for achieving equity and reform at the workplace', in Managing Together? Consultation and Participation in the Workplace, Longman Australia, Melbourne, pp. 41 - 55

Journal articles

Schwarz M; Quinlan M; Maxwell-Stewart H, 2025, 'Trouble on the Roads: Using Digital Techniques to Explore Convict Protest in Van Diemen's Land', Labour History, 129, pp. 61 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/labourhistory.2025.27

Quinlan MG, 2025, 'Psychosocial hazards: An overview and industrial relations perspective', Journal of Industrial Relations, 67, pp. 202 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00221856231212221

Quinlan MG; Rawling MJ, 2024, 'Regulating precarious work: A paradigm shift', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35, pp. 849 - 877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2024.65

O’Keefe S; Allen M; Maxwell-Stewart H; Quinlan M, 2024, 'Alcohol, Work and Play in Convict Australia', Labour History, 127, pp. 145 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/labourhistory.2024.33

Jackson H; Quinlan M, 2024, 'Contract labour in mining and occupational health and safety: A critical review', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35, pp. 576 - 613, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2024.32

Belzer MH; Quinlan MG, 2024, 'The economics of occupational health and safety', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35, pp. 483 - 498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2024.58

Qureshi MO; Harris P; Jegasothy E; Seale H; Chughtai A; Quinlan M, 2024, 'Transport industry workforce risk and exposure to COVID-19 and other related respiratory pandemic diseases: A scoping review', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35, pp. 518 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2024.49

Underhill E; Quinlan M, 2024, 'The Struggle to Regulate Precarious Work Arrangements to Minimize Their Adverse Effects on Health and Safety in Australia', International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 54, pp. 87 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/27551938241234753

Gregson S; Quinlan MG, 2024, 'Death at Dreamworld: Ten pathways to disaster and failure to learn', Economic and Labour Relations Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2024.27

Matthews LR; Finney Lamb C; Jessup GM; Ngo M; Quinlan M, 2024, 'Family Accounts of Their Experiences and Expectations of Authorities Following Sudden Workplace Death in Queensland, Australia', Victims and Offenders, 19, pp. 1320 - 1349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2053257

Quinlan MG, 2024, 'Michael Rawling and Joellen Riley Munton (2024) Regulating gig work: decent labour standards in a world of on-demand work, Routledge, New York, 123pp, $227.20 (hardcover)', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35, pp. 467 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2024.17

Quinlan MG, 2023, 'Daryll Hull Memorial Fellowship in Industrial Relations Award 2022', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 34, pp. 191 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2022.7

Quinlan M; Maxwell-Stewart H, 2023, 'Inequality, worker mobilisation and lessons from history: Australia 1788-1900', Labour and Industry, 33, pp. 39 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2022.2088648

Qureshi M; Seale H; Chughtai A; Jegasothy E; Quinlan M; Harris P, 2023, 'Scoping review of transport workforce exposure to COVID-19 and other respiratory pandemic diseases', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 33

Quinlan MG; James P; Walters D, 2023, 'Work and Health: 50 years of regulatory failure', ECONOMIC AND LABOUR RELATIONS REVIEW, 34, pp. 626 - 628, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/elr.2023.29

Matthews LR; Quinlan M; Jessup GM; Bohle P, 2022, 'Hidden costs, hidden lives: Financial effects of fatal work injuries on families', Economic and Labour Relations Review, 33, pp. 586 - 609, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10353046221114591

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