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  • Mining Work, Family and Community: A Spatially-Oriented Approach to the Impact of the Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine Closure in Remote Australia

    Author(s)
    McDonald, Paula
    Mayes, Robyn
    Pini, Barbara
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Pini, Barbara M.
    Year published
    2012
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    While changes in work and employment practices in the mining sector have been profound, the literature addressing mining work is somewhat partial as it focuses primarily on the workplace as the key (or only) site of analysis, leaving the relationship between mining work and families and communities under-theorized. This article adopts a spatially oriented, case-study approach to the sudden closure of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in the south-west of Western Australia to explore the interplay between the new scales and mobilities of labour and capital and work-family-community connections in mining. In the context of the ...
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    While changes in work and employment practices in the mining sector have been profound, the literature addressing mining work is somewhat partial as it focuses primarily on the workplace as the key (or only) site of analysis, leaving the relationship between mining work and families and communities under-theorized. This article adopts a spatially oriented, case-study approach to the sudden closure of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in the south-west of Western Australia to explore the interplay between the new scales and mobilities of labour and capital and work-family-community connections in mining. In the context of the dramatically reconfigured industrial arena of mining work, the study contributes to a theoretical engagement between employment relations and the spatial dimensions of family and community in resource-affected communities.
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    Journal Title
    The Journal of Industrial Relations
    Volume
    54
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185611432382
    Subject
    Sociology not elsewhere classified
    Applied Economics
    Business and Management
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/51654
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