Last days @ Big Harry's

Title: Last days @ Big Harry's
Creator: Philp, Angela
Relation: Radical Newcastle p. 216-223
Relation: https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/radical-newcastle/
Publisher: NewSouth
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: Trade unions have always used the mechanism of collective bargaining as their prime means for achieving and representing the interests of employees. However, there are times when this alone is not enough. Art has enormous social value and can be a catalyst in reclaiming social and political agency and autonomy in circumstances when an employer seems to hold all the cards - as, for instance, when BHP announced it was going to close the Newcastle Steelworks. This chapter explores the social value that the arts programs linked to the steelworks closure offered to workers. It gives a brief overview of the Ribbons of Steel program managed by BHP and then examines the Molten Arts Project, which was run by the Workers' Cultural Action Committee Inc. (WCAC) of Newcastle Trades Hall.
Subject: BHP; Newcastle steelworks; Worker's Cultural Action Committee (WCAC); arts programs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309506
Identifier: uon:21895
Identifier: ISBN:9781742232591
Language: eng

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