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02996aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 9C16CE30403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 007 ta 008 191011s2020 vraabf b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020438619 020 $a 1925835685 020 $a 9781925835687 035 $a (OCoLC)1122749618 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d AUTNL $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d AUTNL $d DLC $d SILO 043 $a u-at-we 050 4 $a HD8039.T42 $b A87 2020 100 1 $a Scrimgeour, Anne, $e author. 245 10 $a On red earth walking : $b the Pilbara Aboriginal strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 / $c Anne Scrimgeour. 264 1 $a Clayton, Victoria : $b Monash University Publishing, $c [2020] 300 $a xviii, 510 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Australian history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of this significant, unique, and understudied episode of Australian history. Using extensive and previously unsourced archival evidence, Anne Scrimgeour interrogates earlier historical accounts of the strike, delving beneath the strike's mythology to uncover the rich complexity of its history. The use of Aboriginal oral history places Aboriginal actors at the centre of these events, foregrounding their agency and their experiences. Scrimgeour provides a lucid examination of the system of colonial control that existed in the Pilbara prior to the strike, and a fascinating and detailed account of how these mechanisms were gradually broken down by three years of striker activism. Amid Cold-war fears of communist subversion in the north, the prominence of communists among southern supporters and the involvement of a non-Aboriginal activist, Don McLeod, complicated settler responses to the strike. This history raises provocative ideas around racial tensions in a pastoral settler economy, and examines political concerns that influenced settler responses to the strike, to create a nuanced and engaging account of this pivotal event in Australian Indigenous and labour histories. 650 0 $a Strikes and lockouts $z Pilbara (W.A.) $z Pilbara (W.A.) 650 0 $a Aboriginal Australians $z Pilbara (W.A.) $z Pilbara (W.A.) $x Economic conditions. 650 7 $a Aboriginal Australians $x Economic conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00794509 650 7 $a Strikes and lockouts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01135030 651 7 $a Western Australia $z Pilbara. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245016 830 0 $a Australian history (Monash University Publishing) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721014649.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9C16CE30403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search