Who Are Our Enemies?: Racism And The Australian Working Class
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A landmark contribution to the study of race and labour in Australia, Who Are Our Enemies?: Racism and the Australian Working Class confronts one of the most uncomfortable questions in the nation's social history — how did racism become embedded within the very movements built on solidarity and equality? Edited by Ann Curthoys and Andrew Markus, this incisive anthology brings together leading historians and scholars to examine the complex and often troubling relationship between the Australian working class and racial ideology, from the colonial era through to the twentieth century, tracing how exclusionary attitudes shaped legislation, unionism, and everyday social life. The collection argues with scholarly rigour that racism was not merely an aberration within Australian labour history but a structural feature of it, challenging romanticised narratives of the labour movement and demanding a more honest accounting of the past. Curthoys and Markus assemble contributors whose work is both meticulous in its archival research and urgent in its political implications, presenting a mosaic of essays that illuminate the intersections of class, race, and power. For anyone seeking to understand the deeper fault lines of Australian society, this volume raises questions that remain as provocative today as when they were first posed.
Author: Ann Curthoys And Andrew Markus
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Hale and Iremonger in association with The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A landmark contribution to the study of race and labour in Australia, Who Are Our Enemies?: Racism and the Australian Working Class confronts one of the most uncomfortable questions in the nation's social history — how did racism become embedded within the very movements built on solidarity and equality? Edited by Ann Curthoys and Andrew Markus, this incisive anthology brings together leading historians and scholars to examine the complex and often troubling relationship between the Australian working class and racial ideology, from the colonial era through to the twentieth century, tracing how exclusionary attitudes shaped legislation, unionism, and everyday social life. The collection argues with scholarly rigour that racism was not merely an aberration within Australian labour history but a structural feature of it, challenging romanticised narratives of the labour movement and demanding a more honest accounting of the past. Curthoys and Markus assemble contributors whose work is both meticulous in its archival research and urgent in its political implications, presenting a mosaic of essays that illuminate the intersections of class, race, and power. For anyone seeking to understand the deeper fault lines of Australian society, this volume raises questions that remain as provocative today as when they were first posed.