| The neoliberal state, trade unions and collective bargaining in Australia R Cooper, B Ellem British Journal of Industrial Relations 46 (3), 532-554, 2008 | 167 | 2008 |
| Rethinking'regional industrial relations': Space, place and the social relations of work B Ellem, J Shields Journal of Industrial Relations 41 (4), 536-560, 1999 | 101 | 1999 |
| New unionism in the old economy: community and collectivism in the Pilbara's mining towns B Ellem The Journal of Industrial Relations 45 (4), 423-441, 2003 | 98 | 2003 |
| In women's hands?: a history of clothing trades unionism in Australia B Ellem (No Title), 1989 | 83 | 1989 |
| Anti-unionism, employer strategy, and the Australian state, 1996–2005 R Cooper, B Ellem, C Briggs, D Van Den Broek Labor Studies Journal 34 (3), 339-362, 2009 | 78 | 2009 |
| Scaling labour: Australian unions and global mining B Ellem Work, Employment and Society 20 (2), 369-387, 2006 | 72 | 2006 |
| The Impact ofWork Choices' on Women in Low Paid Employment in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis B Pocock, J Elton, A Preston, S Charlesworth, F MacDonald, M Baird, ... Journal of Industrial Relations 50 (3), 475-488, 2008 | 66 | 2008 |
| Workchoices, myth-making at work:[Paper in: Whose Choices? Analysis of the Current Industrial Relations' Reforms'.] B Ellem, M Baird, RD Lansbury, R Cooper Journal of Australian Political Economy, The, 13-31, 2005 | 62 | 2005 |
| Women and Workchoices: Impacts on the low pay sector J Elton, J Bailey, M Baird, S Charlesworth, R Cooper, B Ellem, T Jefferson, ... Hawke Research Institute, 2007 | 50 | 2007 |
| Geographies of the labour process: Automation and the spatiality of mining B Ellem Work, employment and society 30 (6), 932-948, 2016 | 47 | 2016 |
| Making a'Union Town': Class, Gender and Consumption in Inter-War Broken Hill B Ellem, J Shields Labour History, 116-140, 2000 | 45 | 2000 |
| Fair Work and the re-regulation of collective bargaining. R Cooper, B Ellem Australian Journal of Labour Law 22 (3), 284-305, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| Why do unions form peak bodies? The case of the Barrier Industrial Council B Ellem, J Shields Journal of Industrial Relations 38 (3), 377, 1996 | 40 | 1996 |
| Peak union campaigning: Fighting for rights at work in Australia B Ellem British Journal of Industrial Relations 51 (2), 264-287, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Hard ground: Unions in the Pilbara BL Ellem Pilbara Mineworkers Union, 2004 | 37 | 2004 |
| Rethinking Power, Strategy and Renewal: Members and Unions in Crisis Ellem, Goods, Todd British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Temporality and the evolution of GPNs: remaking BHP’s Pilbara iron ore network T Barratt, B Ellem Regional Studies, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Re-placing the Pilbara's mining unions B Ellem Australian Geographer 34 (3), 281-296, 2003 | 33 | 2003 |
| Low‐paid women: the impact of regulatory change in Australia M Baird, R Cooper, B Ellem Industrial Relations Journal 40 (5), 393-407, 2009 | 30 | 2009 |
| Trade union structure and politics in Australia and New Zealand B Ellem, P Franks Labour History, 43-67, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
