Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation - Softcover

Burgmann, Meredith; Burgmann, Verity

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0868407607 ISBN 13: 9780868407609

Verlag: UNSW Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

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.
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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNSW Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0868407607
• ISBN 13: 9780868407609
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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