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Striking Ore: The Rise and Fall of Union Power in the Pilbara - Softcover

Vassiley, Alexis

 
9781923192218: Striking Ore: The Rise and Fall of Union Power in the Pilbara
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1923192213 ISBN 13: 9781923192218
Verlag: Monash University Publishing, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

In the 1970s, workers in Western Australia’s Pilbara iron ore mines went on strike more than the notorious coal miners. ‘We had industrial muscle and we used it,’ recounted one union delegate. Grassroots-led strikes often provoked the ire of union officials and politicians but dramatically improved workers’ lives. Yet this former bastion of militant unionism is today virtually un-unionised. An industry making super-profits is beset by insecure work, mental distress and sexual harassment. How did this union power come about? What did it mean for the workers of the Pilbara and their communities? And how could it be so thoroughly destroyed? Based on archival research and interviews with participants, including rank-and-file union members, shop stewards and organisers, Striking Ore focuses on the workers themselves – including their agitating for hard-won breakthroughs in pay, conditions and safety – to answer these questions and assess the legacy of the unions’ defeat. It offers inspiration for unionists and activists and salient lessons for today’s trade union movement.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexis Vassiley is a labour historian and industrial relations scholar at Edith Cowan University in Perth, where he lectures in work and employment relations. He has published widely on trade union strategy, and is a research team member for the Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety Centre – an ECU industry collaboration centre for the mining sector. An associate editor of Labour History, he also serves as a workplace representative, branch committee member and national councillor for the National Tertiary Education Union.

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Verlag
Monash University Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1923192213
ISBN 13 
9781923192218
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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