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    Red Square - the Myth and the Reality

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    Authors
    Oliver, Bobbie
    Date
    2005
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Oliver, Bobbie. 2005. Red Square - the Myth and the Reality. Papers in Labour History 29: 67-75.
    Source Title
    Papers in Labour History
    Faculty
    Division of Humanities
    Department of Social Sciences
    Faculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19323
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The Government Railway Workshops at Midland had few lengthy industrial disputes during its 90 years of existence, yet despite this apparently calm exterior, it was a highly contested site, divided not only into 'blue' and 'white-collar' territories or 'works' and 'management' but within those broad demarcations into the territory of particular trades, between whom a lively rivalry flourished. Yet of all these places, the two that most excite the memory of past employees and catch the imagination of visitors to the site a decade after the closure of the Workshops are the flagpole and 'Red Square'. This paper discusses the various roles of 'Red Square' as a site for the propagation and spreading of political ideas, a symbol of workers' defiance against the Workshops 'hierarchy' and a site for myth making. It concludes with a consideration of how areas such as 'Red Square' might be interpreted and maintained in any significant way in the process of re-developing the site.

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