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The Money Trail: An Exploration of Perspectives on Money and Materialism in FIFO Employment

In: Resource Curse or Cure ?

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  • Rod Palmer

    (Curtin University)

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This chapter draws on interviews with FIFO workers to examine the motivations informing the decision to undertake such work. Through these ‘insider’ voices a complex picture emerges in which a range of material and lifestyle aspirations, including increased wealth and associated opportunities for ‘getting ahead,’ emerge in many cases as central, but also challenging and shifting, goals. Interviewees highlight the ways in which the nature of FIFO work and attendant personal and family compromises, along with broader cultural expectations, contribute to a somewhat paradoxical situation in which workers no longer feel that FIFO work is a choice. The FIFO experience is one that shows clearly the curse–cure dualism that characterises Western Australia’s mining boom.

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  • Rod Palmer, 2014. "The Money Trail: An Exploration of Perspectives on Money and Materialism in FIFO Employment," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Martin Brueckner & Angela Durey & Robyn Mayes & Christof Pforr (ed.), Resource Curse or Cure ?, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 107-119, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-642-53873-5_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-53873-5_7
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