In the state-run prison that was early New South Wales, pockets of capitalism sprang up like sturdy weeds. with them came wage labour and class struggle. Australian workers were organisiing well before the gold rushes, and later a mass labour movement confronted the employers across the continent, opening the way for bitter confrontations.
Controversy surrounds the colonial labour movement because of its racism and sexism, but this book sheets home the main blame for both reactionary ideologies to the ruling class. And despite many criticism, the author renews pioneering labour historian Brian Fitzpatrick’s argument that ‘the effort of the organised working class…was an effort to achieve social justice’.
表中的内容
Publisher’s foreword to 2024 edition
Preface
Introduction to 2005 edition
1: Our infant might: Working class struggle before the gold rushes
2: A power in the land: Australian unions, 1855-1890
3: Crisis and incorporation: Labour in the 1890s
4: Gender, class and the road to women’s suffrage
5: Race, class and the road to White Australia
关于作者
Tom O’Lincoln joined the radical student movement in Germany in 1967 and was subsequently a socialist organiser, unionist, linguist, educator and journalist. As an activist, Tom was a leading figure in the establishment and growth of the International Socialist political tendency in Australia. As a writer, Tom’s work spanned several decades of commentary and analysis of government and working class politics. In longer publications, Tom’s work covered political economy, Australian history and Marxist theory. His works include Into the Mainstream: The Decline of Australian Communism, Australia’s Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth, The neighbour from hell: two centuries of Australian imperialism, and Years of Rage: Social Conflicts in the Fraser Era. His political memoirs, The Highway is for Gamblers, were published in 2017. Tom died in October 2023.
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