The military, the miners and mass civil disobedience in the Hunter Valley of NSW, 1879-88

Title: The military, the miners and mass civil disobedience in the Hunter Valley of NSW, 1879-88
Creator: Noble, Rod
Relation: Radical Newcastle p. 39-47
Relation: https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/radical-newcastle/
Publisher: NewSouth
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: Two significant events helped to establish the radical credentials of the working-class communities of the Hunter Valley. In 1879 and again in 1888, industrial action by miners was met with the full force of government power in the form of armed troops sent to protect non-union workers. These actions did much to promote the development of a cultural milieu that won for the Hunter Valley an enduring reputation as one of the primary industrially militant regions in Australia. These two instances of state opposition to union action launched a series of episodes which reinforced the region's radical reputation, many of which are discussed in this volume: the Great Strikes of the early 1890s, the Peter Bowling Strike of 1909, the anti-conscription actions and strikes of 1916-17, the 1929 Rothbury Lockout and the 1949 Coal Strike.
Subject: Hunter Valley; radicalism; miner's strikes; activism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309636
Identifier: uon:21919
Identifier: ISBN:9781742232591
Language: eng

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