The **Clutha Development Mine Work-In** was an episode of [workers'
control](Workers'_Self-Management "wikilink") in South Clifton,
[Australia](Commonwealth_of_Australia "wikilink") in
[1972](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Oceania "wikilink"). From
May 8 to 10, 1972, about sixty [miners](Working_Class "wikilink") took
over the Clutha Development mine at South Clifton in defiance of its
official closure on May 5, ensuring the mine was reopened for a further
period; all workers were returned to the
[payroll](Wage_Labour "wikilink") and promised work at other mines after
the impending closure.\[1\]

## References

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1.  [Immanuel Ness](Immanuel_Ness "wikilink") (2014) [New Forms of
    Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of
    Class Struggle
    Unionism](New_Forms_of_Worker_Organization:_The_Syndicalist_and_Autonomist_Restoration_of_Class_Struggle_Unionism "wikilink")
    - Chapter 10: Doing without the boss: Workers' Control Experiments
    in Australia in the 1970s