"Here's something to ease your pain" : community and the response to Rockhampton's Lakes Creek Meatworks crisis, 2002
conference contribution
posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00authored byBarbara Webster
The protracted industrial dispute which ultimately led to the indefinite closure of one of Australia's largest export abattoirs, Lakes Creek Meatworks, created an economic and humanitarian crisis in the Central Queensland city ofRockhampton through mass unemployment and poverty. This paper employs the concepts of "community" and "labour-community coalitions" to explore the responses from various sections of the populace. It argues that shared perceptions of threat melded normally separate social and economic groups into a united community of interests which mobilised as a community of action. However, that united front collapsed as the dispute continued and nonnal sectional interests and ideological orientations resurfaced.
Funding
Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)
History
Parent Title
Proceedings of the 18th AIRAANZ conference : new economies: new industrial relations, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Waikato, NZ.
Start Page
606
End Page
615
Number of Pages
10
Start Date
2004-01-01
ISBN-10
090929190X
Location
Noosa, Qld.
Publisher
Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand
Place of Publication
Brisbane, Qld.
Peer Reviewed
Yes
Open Access
No
External Author Affiliations
Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences; TBA Research Institute;
Era Eligible
Yes
Name of Conference
Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. Conference