Mining towns : making a living, making a life / Erik Eklund.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eklund, Erik (Erik Carl), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Australia.

Mineral industries.

Miners--Dwellings--Australia.

Miners.

Cities and towns--Australia.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This timely book is a history of the iconic Australian towns that arose with these booms over a century: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda. Mining Towns shows the rich cultural and historical legacy these towns helped create as townspeople - those working below the ground and those above - sought to make their lives in them. The current 'fly-in-fly-out' mining culture means we may not see the likes of them again, which, as this book shows, will be a great loss.

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. The global and national context; 2. Broken Hill: Icon of working-class culture; 3. Mount Morgan: In the thrall of modernity; 4.Queenstown: 'They've got to come here and they've got to learn about it'; 5. Port Pirie: Essentially hard and practical; 6. Mount Isa: Normalising outback suburbia; 7. Kambalda: Modernity, environment and experience; POSTSCRIPT; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-74224-111-5

1-74224-598-6

OCLC:

818816827