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{{Infobox_event|image = Coal.jpg|imagecaption = The Burragorang Valley Collieries, a site that is similar to the Clutha Development Mine|date = May 1972}}The '''Clutha Development Mine Work-In''' was an episode of [[Workers' Self-Management|workers' control]] in South Clifton, [[Commonwealth of Australia|Australia]] in [[Timeline of Libertarian Socialism in Oceania|1972]]. From May 8 to 10, 1972, about sixty [[Working Class|miners]] took over the Clutha Development mine at South Clifton in defiance of its official closure on May 5, ensuring the mine was reopened for a further period; all workers were returned to the [[Wage Labour|payroll]] and promised work at other mines after the impending closure.<ref>[[Immanuel Ness]] (2014) [[New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism]] - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s</ref>
The '''Clutha Development Mine Work-In''' was an episode of [[Workers' Self-Management|workers' control]] in South Clifton, [[Commonwealth of Australia|Australia]] in [[Timeline of Anarchism in Oceania|1972]]. From May 8 to 10, 1972, about sixty [[Working Class|miners]] took over the Clutha Development mine at South Clifton in defiance of its official closure on May 5, ensuring the mine was reopened for a further period; all workers were returned to the [[Wage Labour|payroll]] and promised work at other mines after the impending closure.<ref>[[Immanuel Ness]] (2014) [[New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism]] - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s</ref>
 
== See Also ==
* [[Work-In]]
* [[Harco Work-In]]
* [[Sydney Opera House Work-In]]
* [[Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In]]
* [[Wyong Plaza Work-In]]
* [[Nymboida Mine Work-In]]
* [[Coal Cliff Work-In]]
* [[Sanyo Television Factory Work-In]]
* [[Union Carbide Work-In]]
* [[Department of Social Security Work-In]]


== References ==
== References ==
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The Clutha Development Mine Work-In was an episode of workers' control in South Clifton, Australia in 1972. From May 8 to 10, 1972, about sixty miners took over the Clutha Development mine at South Clifton in defiance of its official closure on May 5, ensuring the mine was reopened for a further period; all workers were returned to the payroll and promised work at other mines after the impending closure.[1]

See Also

References

  1. Immanuel Ness (2014) New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments in Australia in the 1970s