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Green Bans, Red Union : the Saving of a City.
At the height of the building 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 NSW Build...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of New South Wales Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface and acknowledgments to the 1998 edition; Introduction to the new edition; Part 1: People Before Profits; The world's first green bans; The preconditions for radical unionism; The greening of the union; Part 2: A New Concept Of Unionism; Organisational principles and practices; Industrial relations strategies; Civilising the industry; Pioneering social movement unionism; Feminism and machismo: women as builders labourers; Part 3: Preventing the Plunder; Defending the open spaces.
- Preserving the built environmentSaving the national estate; Breaking the bans, breaking the union; Green bans forever?; Endnotes; Sources; Index.