Author: REEVES, ANDREW.
Title: Up From The Underworld. Coalminers And Community In Wonthaggi 1909-1968.
Description: 8vo; pp. 164; b/w photograph illustrations; bibliography, index; illustrated stiff wrapper a little creased on top corner; otherwise a very good copy. (Clayton, Monash University Publishing, 2011). A regional mining community that won a national reputation, Wonthaggi came to be admired by many, and disliked by others. For 60 years the town's highly unionised miners successfully worked the thin, broken seams of a state coal mine that would have been regarded as insufficiently profitable by most Australian mine owners.
Keywords: Australian local victoria Wonthaggi 19th century mining history coalminers union
Title: Up From The Underworld. Coalminers And Community In Wonthaggi 1909-1968.
Description: 8vo; pp. 164; b/w photograph illustrations; bibliography, index; illustrated stiff wrapper a little creased on top corner; otherwise a very good copy. (Clayton, Monash University Publishing, 2011). A regional mining community that won a national reputation, Wonthaggi came to be admired by many, and disliked by others. For 60 years the town's highly unionised miners successfully worked the thin, broken seams of a state coal mine that would have been regarded as insufficiently profitable by most Australian mine owners.
Keywords: Australian local victoria Wonthaggi 19th century mining history coalminers union
Price: AUD 30.00 = appr. US$ 20.76 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 110445
- Book number: 110445