It All Started on the Mines'? The 1934 Kalgoorlie Race Riots Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2752002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Gregson (0000-0003-2707-0714, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Issue | 80 |
| Pages | 21 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-6942 • E-ISSN: 1839-3039 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27516768 |
| PMID | 18225374 |
| OpenAlex | W2333728728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Previous studies of the 1934 anti-southern European riots in Kalgoorlie have predictably focused upon racial division. This article will address the other side of the story examples of solidarity across perceived ethnic boundaries. While competitive labour relations in Kalgoorlie's goldmining industry undoubtedly created rifts, some attention should be given to the fashion in which the mines cohered a multi-ethnic workforce, sharing similar living and working conditions. It is suggested that this environment created as much basis for unity as it did for division. The article also contends that the Returned Services League played an ideological and practical role in fanning the outburst
Ethnic group · Ideology · League · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Publishing · Race (biology) · Sociology · Solidarity · Workforce · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |