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- Title
Representing Militancy: Photographs of the Broken Hill Industrial Disputes, 1908-20.
- Authors
Adams, Paul Robert; Eklund, Erik
- Abstract
The Big Strike of 1919-20 was Broken Hill's greatest industrial battle but the photographic record of this militant era on the Barrier minE's is dominated by pictures of the Great 1909 Lockout. Rather than cover the details of these well-known disputes, this article considers the value and power of photographs of the disputes --their presence, absence, production and presentation in major newspapers and in postcards --an area which has secured far less attention from Australian labour historians. Our concern is not only to read this visual material as evidence of industrial disputes but also to consider how the widespread circulation of such images affected contemporary perceptions of The Hill. We argue that images of a militant locality with a determined labour movement, popular after the 1909 dispute, ?nay well have attracted militant organ isers to the town who were important players in the major 1919-20 Big Strike. These images have dominated perceptions of Broken Hill as a bastion of unionism ever since.
- Subjects
BROKEN Hill (N.S.W.); NEW South Wales; AUSTRALIA; MINERS strikes &; lockouts; HISTORY of New South Wales; INDUSTRIAL relations; LABOR unions; MANN, Tom, 1856-1941; PHOTOGRAPHS -- History; POSTCARDS; HISTORY
- Publication
Labour History, 2011, Issue 101, p1
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5263/labourhistory.101.0001