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- Title
Making the 'Gibraltar of Unionism': Union Organising and Peak Union Agency in Broken Hill, 1886-1930.
- Abstract
Broken Hill's reputation as a bastion of union organizing and influence warrants close reconsideration since even here the pattern of union growth and development was anything but unilinear. During its first half century, the town experienced four distinct cycles of union growth, decline, and renewal. Each phase of growth saw the local unions learn from organizing experience, but each also involved new contexts, constraints, and opportunities along with new ideological and spatial agendas of mobilization. Each phase also involved the emergence and active agency of a local peak union body. Union development in Broken Hill was shaped by four key factors: first, the globalized scale and cyclical nature of the metal mining industry; second, the importance of labor migration and worker itinerancy; third, the paradoxical agency of the state; and fourth, the occupational and spatial divisions between local workers themselves.
- Publication
Labour History, 2002, Issue 83, p65
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/27516883