A history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of mining booms—including Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie, and Kambalda—this book is a unique attempt to
Steel Town illuminates our understanding of the processes of industrial and social change. Port Kembla was unique in Australian terms - an urban environment where industrial society shaped local life
Earth and Industry assembles a group of researchers to examine the historic and contemporary relations of people and the environment in the area of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Gippsland is built u
The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalized young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen in the cont
The period after 1945 saw a rapid growth in social welfare, with the state taking on increasing responsibility for pensions, health care, unemployment relief and income support. In Western democracies
