Deposit N177 - Serge Zorino collection

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AU NBAC N177

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Serge Zorino collection

Date(s)

  • 1959 - 1985 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

5 boxes + 4 cartons

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Biographical history

Sergio Anthony (Serge) Zorino was an industrial research officer and member of the Communist Party of Australia. From 1976-1977 he was a tutor at the University of New South Wales. He was Research Officer, Secretary ACT, then Assistant Secretary NSW, State Secretary NSW (Coast District Branch) of the Federated Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association (FEDFA) over the period 1977-1986. Zorino then worked as a Research Officer with the Newcastle Workers’ Health Centre, New South Wales 1987-1988 and as Senior Industrial Officer with the Newcastle Trades Hall Council 1988-1989.

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Scope and content

Personal papers, notes, minutes, discussion papers, and printed material relating to the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association of Australia (New South Wales Branch), the Trade Union Training Authority and the Communist Party of Australia. Also includes material related to ACT branches of trade unions and fraternal industrial organisations, Nuovo Paese and the Italian Federation of Migrant Workers and their Families (Federazione Italiana dei Lavoratori Emigrati e delle loro Famiglie), Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano), migrant workers and ethnic minorities, and papers concerning 1970s occupational health and safety issues.

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Researchers must sign an access agreement

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  • English

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Finding aids

List of the contents of 4 additional cartons rec'd 2011 and 2018 available on request

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NBAC deposits: N72; N81; N129; Z183; Z540; Z291

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Entered from deposit description on 21 August 2012

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  • English

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