Or experience the Full Heritage tour with one of our experienced guides for only R190 per person. Take yourself on a walking tour back in time, and for an extra R50 until 31 March 2022, you SAVE R70 to experience SA’s only authentic underground mine, including the live Gold Pour and a peek inside historical Mine Houses. There’s also the Balloon Ride, Cups & Saucers, Big Swing – all zero fear-factor rated! Why not challenge yourself (and your friends or family) with a variety of fairground-style games – or get a little retail therapy in the quaint stores selling souvenirs, photo memories and more.įor the history buffs, you can spend the day learning about Jozi’s fascinating mining history, riding around the Theme Park soaking in the sights and sounds from the comfort of the fun train! Stop off and take a selfie when you visit the unique Train Museum, with one of the world’s last remaining bullion coaches. But, what’s a visit to Gold Reef City Theme Park without taking the true test of courage on the Storm Chaser or the legendary Tower of Terror? Jozi’s two 10/10 Fear Factor rides! And if fear and adrenalin are not your friends, the Lazy Boats will float your boat, or why not try your hand at adventure mini golf. This is a work that will help rewrite post-World War II western history.Even if all you do is only ride on the Big Wheel, it’s definitely a bargain price for a fantastically fun day out in the City of Gold. In richly textured prose laced with the voices of dozens of Anacondans, Laurie Mercier reveals the intricate twinings of gender and class that enabled this working-class community to resist the conservative and confining ideologies of cold war America.
" Anaconda is a splendid study of one of the most neglected topics in western history. Subtle, sophisticated, passionately human, Anaconda recasts in local textures the opposing claims of class, capital, and gender in the cold war West."-Elizabeth Jameson, author of All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek "In Laurie Mercier's Anaconda, the smelter city once called the ‘City of Whispers' rings with the voices of working people whose community unionism contested corporate control and whose memories challenge corporate history.
"With painstaking attention to ethnic, gender, and class dynamics, and utilizing rich archival and oral history sources, Laurie Mercier has produced a finely written and richly excavated study of the century-long relationship between the powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) and the local working-class community it helped create."- Indiana Magazine of History "Mercier's Anaconda demonstrates the great potential of a community study- she respectfully probes the bonds and divisions of a vibrant town and in the process places Anaconda within a broader regional and national framework."- Journal of American History The seamlessness with which Mercier weaves the tensions and possibilities of gender, class, ethnic and labor relations into the larger community story is particularly impressive."-Janet L. Reviews"An important and evocative story of community unionism, the values of solidarity and mutual support, and the creative agency of men and women working together and, at times, against one another in making a living and a life. Mercier also explores how gender limits on women's political, economic, and social roles shaped the nature and outcome of labor struggles, and traces how union rivalries, environmental concerns, and the 1980 closing of the Anaconda smelter transformed the town.Ī fascinating portrait of how community molds working class consciousness, Anaconda offers important insights about the changing nature of working class culture and collective action. During five decades of devoted unionism, locals embraced an "alternative Americanism" that championed improved living standards for working people as the best defense against communism. Mercier depicts the vibrant life of the smelter city at full steam, incorporating the candid commentary of the locals ("the company furnished three pair of leather gloves. About the BookLaurie Mercier's look at "community unionism" examines the distinctive culture of cooperation and activism fostered by residents in Anaconda, Montana, home to the world's largest copper smelter and the namesake of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
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