Green bans, red union : environmental activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation / Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann
- Bib ID:
- 494307
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Burgmann, Meredith, 1947-
- Description:
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- Sydney : UNSW Press, 1998
- xiv, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0868407607 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"At the height of the building industry boom in the 1970s a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and politicians but delighting many in the wider community, the members of the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation risked their jobs in order to preserve buildings, bush and parkland."--BOOK JACKET.
"Green Bans, Red Union documents the development of a union that took a stand on a number of social issues. Apart from the green bans movement, union members also used their industrial power to defend the rights of oppressed groups, such as Aborigines, women and homosexuals. In telling the colourful story that inspired many environmentalists and ordinary citizens - and gave the word 'green' an entirely new meaning - Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann open a window on a period when Australian workers led the world in innovative and stunningly effective forms of environmental protest."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. 1. People Before Profits. 1. The world's first green bans. 2. The preconditions for radical unionism. 3. The greening of the union
- Pt. 2. A New Concept of Unionism. 4. Organisational principles and practices. 5. Industrial relations strategies. 6. Civilising the industry. 7. Pioneering social-movement unionism. 8. Feminism and machismo: women as builders labourers
- Pt. 3. Preventing the Plunder. 9. Defending the open spaces. 10. Preserving the built environment. 11. Saving the national estate. 12. Breaking the bans, breaking the union. 13. Green Bans Forever?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Burgmann, Verity
- Copyright:
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