'FORGING, AHEAD': INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION IN A MELBOURNE SUBURB 1906-85

The trajectory of the suburb Sunshine in Western Melbourne (1906–85), from industrial powerhouse to repository of social problems, sheds light on the issues surrounding organic urban expansion. For the many Australians living on the fringes of large cities, a sense of deprivation – particularly ineq...

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Published in:Australian economic history review 2012-07, Vol.52 (2), p.148-166
Main Author: MORROW, DAN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Australia
Australian
Deprivation
Economic development
Economic history
Economic inequality
Economic stability
environment
Industrial economics
industry
Manufacturing
McKay, Hugh V
Melbourne: Economic history
N60
N67
N97
Post-war history
Social conflict
Studies
suburb
Suburban areas
Urban sociology
Urbanization
Victoria
World War Two
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Summary:The trajectory of the suburb Sunshine in Western Melbourne (1906–85), from industrial powerhouse to repository of social problems, sheds light on the issues surrounding organic urban expansion. For the many Australians living on the fringes of large cities, a sense of deprivation – particularly inequality in services – undercut the presumed comfort and stability of the post‐war period. Unrest in outer areas deepened following the contraction of the ‘long boom’. The area's pre‐Second World War origins as a manufacturing suburb regulated by the industrialist Hugh V. McKay is starkly contrasted with its later incarnation as a site of industrial and suburban sprawl.
ISSN:0004-8992
1467-8446
2832-157X
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8446.2012.00347.x