Published Resources Details Journal Article

Authors

Ellem, Bradon and Shields, John

Title

Making a 'Union Town': Class, Gender and Consumption in Inter-War Broken Hill

In

Labour History

Imprint

vol. 78, 2000, pp. 116-140

Abstract

Broken Hill is one of the few localities in Australia in which a local working class managed to establish 'hegemony' over the local social and political structure. While many of the ideas, institutions and practices which were to underwrite working-class

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