Technology, Work, Gender and Citizenship at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops Precinct
An Historical Interpretation of Landscape, Identity and Mobilisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2747741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Taksa (0000-0002-0532-2573, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Issue | 76 |
| Pages | 153 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/27516634 |
| OpenAlex | W2329098049 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Although this report relates to a project that has been funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), it builds on 16 years of intermittent interest in the Eveleigh railway workshops. My first contact with this site occurred in 1983 because of its association with ihe NSW General Strike of 1917, which was the subject of my Honours thesis. Later, during my PhD research, I focused more attention on Eveleigh because it offered a good case for investigating how scientific management was diffused in NSW prior to 1921. Why have I now decided to make these workshops the centrepiece of a major project? In part, my choice responds to the growing interest in space and place. But probably the greatest influence comes from my involvement with the conservation of Eveleigh's material heritage and the desire to draw broader attention to its cultural significance, particularly as an icon of labour history. The Eveleigh workshops were built between 1880 and 1886 and operated until 1989. During this time, the site provided employment for tens of thousands of workers, while its operations touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of people mainly because it provided what Stan Jones, the Secretary of the Eveleigh Sub-Branch of the Australian Railways Union, referred to as the 'heart of the NSW Transport System'.1 Eveleigh was not, however, simply central to the State's railway infrastructure. It also had a profound impact on the labour movement. Its employees participated in the Eight Hour campaigns, provided the foot soldiers and leaders for the Labor Party and raised substantial funds for its election campaigns. According to Stan Jones, it was at Eveleigh that the Railway Shop Committee Movement had its genesis in 1926.2 Where are these workshops and what makes them significant? Located approximately four kilometres south of the Sydney General Post Office and approximately 51 hectares in size, the Eveleigh precinct is bounded by the inner city suburbs of Darlington, Redfern, Alexandria, Erskinville and Newtown, running from Redfern Station in the northeast to Erskinville and MacDonaldtown Stations
Citizenship · Interpretation (philosophy) · Library science · Management · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subject (documents) · Visitor pattern · Work (physics) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Law · Rural development and sustainability
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |