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Andrew Reeves

Up from the Underworld

Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909-1968

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Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert an influence on that industry out or all proportion to its size and numbers for more than sixty years? At different stages of its history the State Coal Mine and its highly unionised workforce represented a national benchmark for the introduction of new mining technologies, for the operation of successful state enterprises and ultimately the exercise of political influence within the coal industry. While Wonthaggis mineworkers represented only a small fraction of the Miners Federations national memb… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-9806512-6-3
  • EAN: 9780980651263
  • Produktnummer: 16510415
  • Verlag: Monash University Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H15.6 cm x B23.3 cm x D1.1 cm 290 g
  • Gewicht: 290
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Andrew Reeves is a Professorial Fellow at Monash University, attached to the National Centre for Australian Studies. Trained as a historian at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, he subsequently worked for two decades in Australian museums and more recently as a senior policy advisor to the Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. He has published on subjects as varied as the history and material culture of Australian trade unionism, goldmining in nineteenth century Victoria and museum studies.

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