ABSTRACT Live animal export has developed into a trade on an international scale and one that has attracted criticisms and protests to protect animal welfare and rights by groups and organisations over several decades. This paper analyses a little-known role played by a blue-collar trade union and its campaign to ban live animal exports from Australia. Using social movement theory, the paper argues that the Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union (AMIEU) chose strategically to invite representatives of an animal welfare and rights organisation to speak at a 1980 blockade in order to buttress a traditional industrial campaign to achieve its objective. Yet after developing links with such groups and organisations, the union found itself increasingly alienated from these strategic alliances as time passed. This case study, although grounded in social movement literature, remains a labour history study of changing union strategy and adaptability to circumstances.

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活体动物出口行业：澳大利亚蓝领工会在动物福利和权利运动中所发挥作用的案例研究

摘要 几十年来，活体动物出口已发展成为一种国际规模的贸易，并引起了团体和组织保护动物福利和权利的批评和抗议。本文分析了蓝领工会发挥的鲜为人知的作用及其禁止澳大利亚活体动物出口的运动。该论文使用社会运动理论认为，澳大利亚肉类工业雇员工会 (AMIEU) 战略性地选择邀请动物福利和权利组织的代表在 1980 年的封锁中发言，以支持传统的工业运动以实现其目标。然而，在与这些团体和组织建立联系之后，工会发现随着时间的推移，自己与这些战略联盟越来越疏远。这个案例研究，