The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1742589308 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In those days, the Pilbara excited both hope and dread about its workers and their power. The boomtime stories do not reveal much about the Pilbara itself, a place completely transformed across fifty years of mining. The companies reinvented the Pilbara through workplace control, fly-in-fly-out labor, and twelve-hour shifts. 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 to