TY - JOUR
T1 - Labor history and public history in Australia
T2 - allies or uneasy bedfellows?
AU - Taksa, Lucy
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper reflects on the ways in which public labor history and more populist forms of public history have intersected and/or diverged in Australia since the 1970s. By comparing various labor heritage programs and public history interpretation strategies at four redeveloped industrial heritage sites, it examines how both approaches have conceived and represented workers' history and the relationship between past and present, industrialization and deindustrialization. Drawing on the concepts of nostalgia and nostophobia, the paper suggests that in Australia, labor history/heritage and public history are fundamentally at odds as a result of different political and economic imperatives and the recognition given to workers' collective traditions.
AB - This paper reflects on the ways in which public labor history and more populist forms of public history have intersected and/or diverged in Australia since the 1970s. By comparing various labor heritage programs and public history interpretation strategies at four redeveloped industrial heritage sites, it examines how both approaches have conceived and represented workers' history and the relationship between past and present, industrialization and deindustrialization. Drawing on the concepts of nostalgia and nostophobia, the paper suggests that in Australia, labor history/heritage and public history are fundamentally at odds as a result of different political and economic imperatives and the recognition given to workers' collective traditions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950746411&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S014754790999010X
DO - 10.1017/S014754790999010X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77950746411
SN - 0147-5479
VL - 76
SP - 82
EP - 104
JO - International Labor and Working-Class History
JF - International Labor and Working-Class History
IS - 1
ER -