Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla

by Erik Eklund

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Description Using archival records, oral history interviews, and company documents, this book charts the relationship between economic change and the human experience of that change in Port Kembla, Australia, an area seen by many Australia, an area seen by many Australians as a polluted wasteland. Also explored are industrial society and the impact of economic decline and deindustrialization, drawing together themes of migration, gender, class, and identity.

Publisher Description

Steel Town is about the social and political effects of largescale industrialisation in one New South Wales industrial town - Port Kembla - which in many ways exemplifies the changing economic base of Australia. Port Kembla slipped into national consciousness as the centre of a new, 'modern', industrial Australia in the 1950s. The town has now receded once again, this time behind the facade of suburban homogeneity and a developing 'red light' district status. The story of the town's rise and fall, told before it disappears altogether, illuminates our understanding of the processes of industrial and social change.

Author Biography

Erik Eklund writes on the lives and experiences of three generations of Port Kembla residents, giving the human experience of the industrial age the closer attention it deserves.

Details

  • ISBN 052285026X
  • ISBN-13 9780522850260
  • Title Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla
  • Author Erik Eklund
  • Format Hardcover
  • Year 2003
  • Pages 280
  • Edition 1st
  • Publisher Melbourne University
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