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

• Autore: Eklund Erik (Erik Carl)
• Pubblicazione: Sydney : , : University of New South Wales Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.2
• Soggetto topico: Mineral industries - Social aspects - Australia; Miners - Dwellings - Australia; Cities and towns - Australia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mining towns
• ISBN: 1-74224-111-5; 1-74224-598-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910652053203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II