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Becoming industrial: Building, rebuilding and reinventing Cremorne and South Richmond, c1885–1930

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  • Charles Fahey
  • Seamus O'Hanlon
  • Emma Robertson

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This article examines the economic, social, and morphological changes associated with the arrival, consolidation, and expansion of two major manufacturing complexes in inner Melbourne from the 1880s to the 1930s. Archival and primary sources that generate spatial data are used to consider workplace issues and the urban environmental impacts of industrialisation. We argue that while in keeping with new historiographies that emphasise global processes, historians must remain attuned to the localised impacts of economic change for people living in neighbourhoods that undergo such transformations.

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  • Charles Fahey & Seamus O'Hanlon & Emma Robertson, 2025. "Becoming industrial: Building, rebuilding and reinventing Cremorne and South Richmond, c1885–1930," Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(3), pages 312-331, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:apechr:v:65:y:2025:i:3:p:312-331
    DOI: 10.1111/aehr.70013
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    1. Lionel Frost & Seamus O'Hanlon, 2009. "Urban History And The Future Of Australian Cities," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 49(1), pages 1-18, March.
    2. Robertson, Emma & Fahey, Charles, 2023. "“Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 24(1), pages 2-27, March.
    3. Tony Dingle & Seamus O'Hanlon, 2009. "From Manufacturing Zone To Lifestyle Precinct: Economic Restructuring And Social Change In Inner Melbourne, 1971–2001," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 49(1), pages 52-69, March.
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