Representing Militancy

Photographs of the Broken Hill Industrial Disputes, 1908-20

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ID2746340
AutoresPaul Robert Adams Paul Robert Adams, Paul R Adams (0000-0001-8063-0560, The University of Sydney), Erik Eklund (0000-0002-7335-8041), Erik Eklund Erik Eklund
Ano2011
Fascículo101
Páginas1
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLabour History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0023-6942 • E-ISSN: 1839-3039
EditoraLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5263/labourhistory.101.0001
OpenAlexW2201635317
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

The Big Strike of 1919-20 was Broken Hill’s greatest industrial battle but the photographic record of this militant era on the Barrier mines is dominated by pictures of the Great 1909 Lockout. Rather than cover the details of these well-known disputes, this article considers the value and power of photographs of the disputes – their presence, absence, production and presentation in major newspapers and in postcards – an area which has secured far less attention from Australian labour historians. Our concern is not only to read this visual material as evidence of industrial disputes but also to consider how the widespread circulation of such images affected contemporary perceptions of The Hill. We argue that images of a militant locality with a determined labour movement, popular after the 1909 dispute, may well have attracted militant organisers to the town who were important players in the major 1919-20 Big Strike. These images have dominated perceptions of Broken Hill as a bastion of unionism ever since

Archaeology · Battle · Media studies · Militant · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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