While Dragging Our Hearts Behind Us
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Up from the Underworld
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Up from the Underworld
Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909 – 1968
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A regional mining community that won a national reputation, Wonthaggi came to be admired by many, and disliked by others. For sixty years the town’s highly unionised miners successfully worked the thin, broken seams of a state coal mine that would have been regarded as insufficiently profitable by most Australian mine owners. At times, through the national Miner’s Federation, they exerted a powerful influence within the Australian coal industry and beyond. For the residents of Wonthaggi, their mine and their union helped them understand and define who they were, these things playing a role in their everyday lives, understandings and imaginations that thoroughly transcended the workplace. In an age of private accumulation and social fragmentation, Up from the Underworld brings to light this important history.
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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780980651263
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing
- Imprint
- Monash University Publishing
- Publication date
- 1 June 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 232
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
- Language
- English
