The first Australian film to document the organisation of a strike and its unfolding over time from an “insider” perspective. In September 1982, at the height of the economic recession, Australian Iron and Steel, a subsidiary of BHP, announced its intention to retrench 400 miners from the six coal pits which supplied the company’s Wollongong steelworks. Kemira was the worst affected pit where 206 workers (two-thirds of the workforce) were to lose their jobs. A confronting account of an important historical and political event.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
323803
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Big business
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Broken Hill Proprietary Company
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Coal mines and mining
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial sociology
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Labor disputes
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Mineral industries
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Steel industry and trade - Australia
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Wollongong (N.S.W.)
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Industrial relations - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor and laboring classes - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor disputes
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Miners - Australia - Social conditions
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Strikes and lockouts
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Feature films → Feature films - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)