Dr Verity Burgmann is Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and Director of the Roger Coates Labour History Project at www.reasoninrevolt.net.au. She is the author of numerous studies of labour and social movements, including ‘In Our Time’ (1985), Power and Protest (1993), Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995), Power, Profit and Protest (2003), Climate Politics and the Climate Movement (2012) and Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (2016).