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“Good Riddance to the Stinkin' Place”: Deindustrialisation and Memory at Associated Pulp and Paper Mills in Burnie, Tasmania

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posted on 2023-05-20, 08:42 authored by Ruth BartonRuth Barton
As areas have deindustrialised, the factories that once symbolised prosperity and constancy are abandoned. These buildings are imbued with the memories of the workers and local people and can become the site of contest over visions of the past, present and future. In Burnie, Tasmania, the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills factory closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012. There was a sense of ambivalence around these buildings that had dominated Burnie physically and economically for over 75 years. Their centrality to the town's prosperity and growth went largely uncelebrated and they were demolished to erase memories of the industrial past and frame the future as post-industrial.

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Publication title

Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History

Volume

109

Pagination

149-167

ISSN

0023-6942

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Place of publication

United Kingdom

Rights statement

© 2015 Australian Society for the Study of Labour History

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Employment patterns and change

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