The Resource The Pilbara : from the deserts profits come, Bradon Ellem
The Pilbara : from the deserts profits come, Bradon Ellem
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- Summary
- For all this, what we know about a vital region such as the Pilbara remains incomplete. The boomtime stories do not reveal much about the Pilbara itself, a place completely transformed across fifty years of mining. In the focus on the immediate, no-one acknowledges the Pilbara?s ancient history or the men and women who worked there from the 1960s, building unions and making communities as they worked the mines. In those days, the Pilbara excited both hope and dread about its workers and their power. ?From the deserts prophets come?, AD Hope had written years before in his poem, ?Australia.? And it appeared that the Pilbara might be the site of a novel kind of unionism, with workers winning not only high wages but control of the places where they worked and the towns where they lived. It was not to be: from the 1980s, the companies fought back, defeating the unions and remaking the Pilbara. The managers were now and managing workers. The companies went on to reinvent the Pilbara through workplace control, fly-in-fly-out labour and twelve-hour shifts. Their vision reshaped not just the desert bit the cities, not just work in mines and ports but in offices and shops. When the biggest boom in mining history came along, it unfolded across a Pilbara landscape very different from a generation earlier. The union prophets were gone; the companies? profits grew. The story of fifty years of conflict about work and life in the Pilbara and how it has affected the rest of Australia
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- pt. One From the Deserts the Prophets Come
- 1.Mining the Pilbara
- pt. Two A Union Place
- 2.`Tethered to the World'
- 3.Frontiers of Control
- 4.Contested Terrain
- pt. Three The Companies Fight Back
- 5.War of Attrition: Robe River
- 6.Frontal Assault: Hamersley Iron
- 7.`The Last 500': BHP Billiton
- pt. Four Company Space
- 8.The Rise and Fall of the Pilbara Mineworkers' Union
- 9.Workers in the Boom
- 10.Beyond the Boom
- pt. Five From the Deserts Profits Come
- 11.Remaking the Pilbara
- Isbn
- 9781742589305
- Label
- The Pilbara : from the deserts profits come
- Title
- The Pilbara
- Title remainder
- from the deserts profits come
- Statement of responsibility
- Bradon Ellem
- Subject
-
- Industrial relations -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- International business enterprises -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Iron miners -- Labour unions -- Australia | Pilbara (W.A.)
- Iron miners -- Labour unions -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Mining corporations -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Pilbara (W.A.) -- Social conditions
- Wages -- Miners -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Iron mines and mining -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- trueAustralian
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For all this, what we know about a vital region such as the Pilbara remains incomplete. The boomtime stories do not reveal much about the Pilbara itself, a place completely transformed across fifty years of mining. In the focus on the immediate, no-one acknowledges the Pilbara?s ancient history or the men and women who worked there from the 1960s, building unions and making communities as they worked the mines. In those days, the Pilbara excited both hope and dread about its workers and their power. ?From the deserts prophets come?, AD Hope had written years before in his poem, ?Australia.? And it appeared that the Pilbara might be the site of a novel kind of unionism, with workers winning not only high wages but control of the places where they worked and the towns where they lived. It was not to be: from the 1980s, the companies fought back, defeating the unions and remaking the Pilbara. The managers were now and managing workers. The companies went on to reinvent the Pilbara through workplace control, fly-in-fly-out labour and twelve-hour shifts. Their vision reshaped not just the desert bit the cities, not just work in mines and ports but in offices and shops. When the biggest boom in mining history came along, it unfolded across a Pilbara landscape very different from a generation earlier. The union prophets were gone; the companies? profits grew. The story of fifty years of conflict about work and life in the Pilbara and how it has affected the rest of Australia
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ellem, B. L.
- Dewey number
- 338.273
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Iron miners
- Wages
- Mining corporations
- Iron mines and mining
- Industrial relations
- International business enterprises
- Iron miners
- Pilbara (W.A.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Pilbara : from the deserts profits come, Bradon Ellem
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- cartographic image
- still image
- Content type code
-
- cri
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. One From the Deserts the Prophets Come -- 1.Mining the Pilbara -- pt. Two A Union Place -- 2.`Tethered to the World' -- 3.Frontiers of Control -- 4.Contested Terrain -- pt. Three The Companies Fight Back -- 5.War of Attrition: Robe River -- 6.Frontal Assault: Hamersley Iron -- 7.`The Last 500': BHP Billiton -- pt. Four Company Space -- 8.The Rise and Fall of the Pilbara Mineworkers' Union -- 9.Workers in the Boom -- 10.Beyond the Boom -- pt. Five From the Deserts Profits Come -- 11.Remaking the Pilbara
- Control code
- 000059953362
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781742589305
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 99973124138
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), map, plates (some colour)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)982652281
- Label
- The Pilbara : from the deserts profits come, Bradon Ellem
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- cartographic image
- still image
- Content type code
-
- cri
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. One From the Deserts the Prophets Come -- 1.Mining the Pilbara -- pt. Two A Union Place -- 2.`Tethered to the World' -- 3.Frontiers of Control -- 4.Contested Terrain -- pt. Three The Companies Fight Back -- 5.War of Attrition: Robe River -- 6.Frontal Assault: Hamersley Iron -- 7.`The Last 500': BHP Billiton -- pt. Four Company Space -- 8.The Rise and Fall of the Pilbara Mineworkers' Union -- 9.Workers in the Boom -- 10.Beyond the Boom -- pt. Five From the Deserts Profits Come -- 11.Remaking the Pilbara
- Control code
- 000059953362
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781742589305
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 99973124138
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), map, plates (some colour)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)982652281
Subject
- Industrial relations -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- International business enterprises -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Iron miners -- Labour unions -- Australia | Pilbara (W.A.)
- Iron miners -- Labour unions -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Mining corporations -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Pilbara (W.A.) -- Social conditions
- Wages -- Miners -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- Iron mines and mining -- Western Australia | Pilbara
- trueAustralian
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