{"product_id":"digging-people-up-for-coal-paperback","title":"Digging People Up For Coal - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeredith Fletcher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is about the birth, life and loss of a community.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e... a dramatic account of Australia's most astounding urban story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Tom Stannage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about the birth, life and loss of a community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYallourn was designed in the 1920s as a garden town laid out on 'hygienic and aesthetic principles'. It became a thriving and close-knit community, home to several generations of State Electricity Commission workers and their families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1960s, however, the town was surplus to requirements. It had become an 'area' to be 'cleared'. The Save Yallourn Campaign was long and bitterly fought, but the residents' efforts were in vain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeredith Fletcher brings to life a community that still exists vividly in memory and imagination. She looks at the intense grief people feel for lost places, and at the creativity that grief can release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigging People Up for Coal is the first book to examine the process of deconstruction, demolition and detachment of an Australian town. In resurrecting Yallourn from the depths of the open cut, it both celebrates and mourns a lost community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr Meredith Fletcher\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Centre for Gippsland Studies at Monash University's Gippsland Campus. Her books include \u003ci\u003eAvon to the Alps: A History of the Shire of Avon\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) and \u003ci\u003eStrathfieldsaye, A History and Guide \u003c\/i\u003e(1992) and she is the editor of the innovative \u003ci\u003eGippsland Heritage Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.22 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47741507010781,"sku":"9780522849783","price":43.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/GgFAAtD9t39780522849783.webp?v=1775534111","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/digging-people-up-for-coal-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}