LAST ITEM HELD MATCHING THIS TITLE STATED:

Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1978. 400 g; XX, 212 pages, last page blank, indexed. Illustrated paperback binding, slightly faded on the spine section, with a staple in the top right-hand corner of the front cover. Otherwise the book shows no signs of damage. This book investigates the history of working-class racism in Australia. It asks why the working class has experienced racial and ethnic antagonisms, and what the effect of these antagonisms have been on labour's industrial and political action. The 14 contributors present the results of their research into various aspects of this experience: the 19th-century anti-Chinese movement; the role of the labour movement in the emergence of the racially based immigration policy of "White Australia"; the stances taken by the trade unions, the ACTU, and the Socialists towards this policy the century; the labour movement responses to the super exploitation of Aboriginal and Melanesian ("Kanaka") labour; and the response of trade unions to non-British migrant workers since the Second World War. The book is a contribution to Australian labour history, and to the ongoing debate, theoretical and practical, over the dynamics of race and ethnic relations within the capitalist society. -- rear panel blurb. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Australia -- Politics.