Company Towns and Class Processes
A Study of the Coal Towns of Central Queensland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5018963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Gibson (0000-0003-4605-1818, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-308 |
| Publication date | 1991-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d090285 |
| OpenAlex | W2037460172 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 21 |
The growth of the international export coal market during the 1960s and 1970s prompted, in Australia, a massive injection of global and national capital into coal-mine and town development, especially in rural areas of Central Queensland. A new and distinctive set of 'localities' were created. In this paper some of the social processes set in motion by this development are examined with particular focus upon the role of capitalist class processes in the region. A number of struggles involving miners and their employers, town residents and the state, and workers and residents which have occurred over the last twenty years are discussed. The complex and at times contradictory interactions of class and nonclass processes within these struggles are explored, each case highlighting a different moment in class (and place) formation
Archaeology · Capital (architecture · Class (philosophy · Class formation · Coal · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Mining and Resource Management · Urban Planning and Governance
Mining in Australia
Labor regimes, long-distance commuting, and the spaces of production and social reproduction in large-scale mining
Gender (plays) in Tanjung Bara mining camp in Eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia
Stuffed if I know!’
In the Valley of the Sweet Mother
Digging women
With the mine in the veins
Hewers of Cake and Drawers of Tea
Scary” heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town
Space, place and gender relations
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions
Political geography
Energy and labour
Local spaces of labour control or platforms for agency? The North East Durham Coalfield, 1820–1890
For Postcapitalist Studies
The 'Feminine Revolution in Mining
Long-Distance Commuting
Paternalism, pollution and protest in a company town
The Feminisation of Mining
Labour Market Dynamics in Resource Dependent Regions
Reinterpreting the Geography of Accumulation
Regional Subjection and Becoming
Labour Management Space, and Restructuring of the Australian Coal Industry
Grounding Globalization
Political Economy Comes Home
A woman's place?
Spatial Divisions of Labour
Class Practices as Regional Markers
Knowledge and class
Opencut
Knowledge and the ‘Localities’ Debate
Filipino Migration to Australia
Industrial reorganisation and coal production in Australia, 1860–1982
Sources of Variation in Working Class Images of Society
Regional Restructuring, Class Change, and Political Action
Housing policy and home ownership in mining towns
Regional Restructuring
Industrial Restructuring, Local Politics and the Reproduction of Labour Power
On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time
Localities, regions and social class
Australian Coal in the Global Context
For Freedom and Dignity
Wives of the Radical Labour Movement
The Wonthaggi Coal Strike, 1934
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,74 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |