Introduction: A View from Below
A False Start (1891)
Glebe in the 1891 election
Ambiguous Labor candidates
Victory in Glebe
An Undisciplined Party (1892-1900)
A divided party
Single Tax in Glebe and Annandale
The split in Glebe
Regrouping after defeat
A Revival of Labor Branches (1901-10)
Local government opportunities
Revival in Glebe – the 1910 election
Victory in 1910
Class and socialism in Glebe
Achieving Autonomy (1910-20)
Another Glebe split
Recovering from the split
Creating a Local Political Machine (1921-34)
Labor leadership struggles in 1921-23
Winning control of Glebe Council
Branch control over aldermen
The Walsh Machine
Langites swamp Glebe
Power tends to corrupt
The Early Depression in Glebe (1929-34)
Timber strike of 1929
Confronting social problems
Graft and corruption
Competition from the left in Glebe
Unseating Keegan
Dr Foley of Glebe (1934-40)
The Foley machine
Confronting the inner group
The Harold Park affair
Other allegations of corruption
The Nolan Report
A Langite irritant to Labor
Adjusting to a New World (1940-48)
Reviving Glebe Labor
Competition from the left
Resisting communism
The last days of Glebe Council
Labor or Lang
Glebe Labor in the City of Sydney (1948-68)
A whiff of corruption
The DLP split in Glebe
Branch profiles after the split
End of involvement in the City Council
Battles for Control in Glebe and Leichhardt (1968-86)
Challenge from the Glebe Society
Attack from the left
The end of the Glebe North Branch
The politics of stacking
From Factions to Fractions (1984-2001)
Losing Leichhardt Council
Branch decline
Policy promotion
Other branch activity
The state of the local party
Names on the street
What Use are Branches?
A golden age of Glebe Labor?
Participation and representation
Endnotes/ Finding Out [primary sources] / Select Bibliography/ Index