Broken Hill: rethinking the significance of the material culture and intangible heritage of the Australian labour movement

摘要: Taking Broken Hill as an exemplar of Australian, indeed global, labour heritage, this article, analyses the survival heritage and union practices in town that continues to present. It examines interpretation successive layers industrial history a means revealing culturally dynamic enduring community with close connections its built heritage. The authors challenge application two-dimensional static models interpretations too often applied contested sites. argue is whose determined social character distinct environment has transcended changing patterns investment economic decline.