What a comparison that union perception was to the thesis on the Pilbara Iron Ore mines written by Pam Swain. Pam writes the story of Robe as a management struggle to overcome internal incompetence and lack of management resolve to achieve the best in human behaviour. The internal story of Robe River was and I assume still is, one of a company striving to achieve its best. Not that financial profit is the maker or breaker of a good society. So what is the point.
Ideology is dead.
Practical profit has won over class consciousness because profit produces investment, work, income for the citizenry and the elimination of human hunger and misery. I would rather be happy with a full stomach than happy with an empty stomach. Lack of profit is lack of security. The only job security any of us can achieve is a job with a business making money. Before Robe River focused on performance, the mine was in danger of losing sales contracts.