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Author Reeves, Andrew, author

Title Up from the underworld : coalminers and community in Wonthaggi 1909-1968 / Andrew Reeves
Published Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publising, [2011]
Clayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University Publishing, [2011]
©2011
©2011

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 MELB  331.8812233 Ree/Uft  AVAILABLE
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Description xvii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Building a future: The early years, 1909--1914 -- ch. 2 Fragile prosperity: Consolidation and expansion, 1914--1929 -- ch. 3 Up from the underworld, 1929--1934 -- ch. 4 Political recovery and economic decline, 1934--1939 -- ch. 5 Contraction and contradiction, 1939--1945 -- ch. 6 B̀ack the Miners' Programme': Isolation and confrontation, 1945--1949 -- ch. 7 Ẁhen the last wheel finally turns...' 1949--1968
Summary Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert an influence on that industry out or all proportion to its size and numbers for more than sixty years?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-159) and index
Subject Coal miners -- Political activity -- Australia -- Wonthaggi (Vic.)
Coal miners -- Australia -- Wonthaggi (Vic.) -- History.
Coal miners -- Australia -- Wonthaggi (Vic.)
Coal mines and mining -- Australia -- Victoria -- Wonthaggi
Coal miners -- Labor unions -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Local government -- Australia -- Wonthaggi (Vic.)
Local government -- Australia -- Victoria -- Wonthaggi
SUBJECT State Coal Mine (Wonthaggi, Vic.) -- History
Wonthaggi (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93075736 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
LC no. 2011410568
ISBN 0980651263 (paperback)
9780980651263 (paperback)
9780980651270 (web)
Other Titles Coalminers and community in Wonthaggi 1909-1968