Showing Some Fight: Kemira's Challenge to Industrial Relations

Rebecca Coyle and Lisa Milner look at Tom Zubrycki's 1984 documentary Kemira: Diary of a Strike, which dealt with the protest against the shutdown of a coal mine in Wollongong. The article presents a case study of the film, which documented the 1982 sacking of 400 miners and the sixteen-day occupation of the Kemira pit by thirty-one miners. The authors explore the documentary within a framework of other films associated with industrial relations.