• BA (Hons) (Tas)
• MA (Tas)
• Grad Dip Bus Studs (UNE)
• MComm (Melb)
• PhD (Monash)

• Barton, R. (2018). “Our Tarkine, our future”: the Australian Workers Union use of narratives around place and community in West and North West Tasmania, Australia In: Antipode, 50, 41 – 60
  
  
• Barton, R. (2015). “Good riddance to the stinkin’ place”: Deindustrialisation and memory at associated pulp and paper mills in Burnie, Tasmania In: Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, 109, 149 – 167
  
  
• Barton, R.,Fairbrother, P. (2014). What can unions do? Addressing multinational relocation in north west Tasmania In: Journal of Industrial Relations, 56, 691 – 708
  
  
• Barton, R.,Cairns, G. (2013). De(constructed) and reconstructed images of the workplace: a case from the edge of Tasmania In: Proceedings of the 27th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 4-6 December 2013
  
  
• Barton, R.,Fairbrother, P. (2013). Trade unions – development actors or victims: A case study from North West Tasmania In: Proceedings of the 2013 the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 25-28 November 2013
  
  
• Barton, R.,Fairbrother, P. (2012). A failure to engage?: Trade unions and industrial regeneration on the north west coast of Tasmania In: The annual conference of the Australian Sociological Association 2012: Emerging and Enduring Inequalities, Brisbane, Queensland, 26 – 29 November 2012
  
  
• Barton, R.,Van den Broek, D. (2011). Agency and the deunionisation of managers in an Australian telecommunications company In: Journal of Management & Organization, 17, 210 – 225
• Barton, R. (2011). The state, labour management and union marginalisation at Electrolytic Zinc, Tasmania, 1920-48 In: Labour History, 101, 53 – 70
  
  
• Barton, R.,Fairbrother, P. (2009). The Local is Now Global: Building a Union Coalition in the International Transport and Logistics Sector In: Relations Industrielle / Industrial Relations, 64, 685 – 703
  
  
• Barton, R.,Snell, D.,Fairbrother, P. (2008). The state of unions and union research in AustraliaIn: Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australian and New Zealand, Melbourne, 6-8 February 2008

View more outputs from this academic in the RMIT Research Repository

• Future Jobs and Regional Workforce Development. Funded by: Regional Australia Institute from (2018 to 2019)
  
  
• Unions and Regional Regeneration. Funded by: ARC Discovery Grant 2014 from (2014 to 2016)
  
  
• Local Union, Global Reach: The ITF and Local Trade Unionism in Australia and the UK. Funded by: RMIT Emerging Researcher Grants from (2008 to 2009)

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