'The Peanut King' and other pranks: Exploring working culture through apprentice initiations and rituals at the Midland Railway Workshops.

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'The Peanut King' and other pranks: Exploring working culture through apprentice initiations and rituals at the Midland Railway Workshops.

For 90 years,the Western Australian Government Railway (later Westrail)Workshops at Midland were the largest industrial Workshops in Western Australia. From 1998 to 2004, the Workshops was the subject of an extensive history project. Commencing with an oral history programme aimed at interviewing a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Oliver, Bobbie
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2004
Subjects:	Midland Railway Workshops Western Australian Government Railways/Westrail Workshops workplace culture Western Australian labour history oral history apprentice initiations
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8330

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