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Title

Resource communities: settlement and workforce issues

Author(s)

Brealey, Terence B.;  Neil, Cecily C.;  Newton, Peter W.

Abstract

It is now twenty years since the 1960s mineral boom produced a demand for labour in a number of isolated, hitherto sparsely-populated, resource-rich countries such as Australia, Canada and Scandinavia. This need was largely met by the recruitment of labour from cities, and the provision of new towns, based on urban models, to house the new recruits and their families. The collection of papers contained in this book explores firstly, the consequences of the growth of these new towns, and secondly, possible options for the future provision of labour for isolated mining locations. The collection is aimed primarily at practitioners and policy makers. However an attempt has been made to ground the papers firmly in the context of the wider economic, social and technological structures within which the demand for new towns, and the recruitment of labour has occurred. Particular attention has been paid to the cyclical nature of the fortunes of isolated mining communities, and the international nature of the decisions which affect their future. Throughout the studies contained in the book there is the recognition that effective planning in the future cannot be based on the results of a series of unconnected case studies, but must rather be based on an understanding of the consequences for mining communities of the interaction of state, capital and labour at regional, national and international levels. [Book cover]

Publication type

Book

Publication year

1988

Keyword(s)

Accommodation;  Australia;  Canada;  Country towns;  Industrial relations;  Local councils;  Mining districts;  Mining towns;  New towns;  Northern Australia;  Regional development;  Remote areas;  Rural sociology;  Social conditions;  Sparsely populated areas

Publisher

CSIRO Australia

ISBN

0643042474

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