The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 5The postwar period has seen radical changes in Australia. Increased dependence on the United States, an influx of European and Asian immigrants, and a series of economic booms and recessions have confronted Australians with the challenge of surviving as an offshoot of European civilization in a largely Asian region and securing a prosperous future with declining support from European markets and investment. This final volume in the Oxford History of Australia details this volatile period, showing that while some Australians have resisted the pressures for change, most have adapted resourcefully and intelligently to the task of creating a new nation able to survive into the 21st century. |
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38 Women sometimes suspected that male unionists campaigning for equal pay
were often less concerned with industrial justice than with making them
unattractive to bosses ; if an employer had to choose between a male or a female
worker ...
38 Women sometimes suspected that male unionists campaigning for equal pay
were often less concerned with industrial justice than with making them
unattractive to bosses ; if an employer had to choose between a male or a female
worker ...
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In the Pilbara district of Western Australia Aboriginal pastoral workers under the
inspiration of two Aborigines , Clancy McKenna and Dooley Binbin , and a white
stockman , Don McLeod , went on strike for better pay in May 1946 . Despite ...
In the Pilbara district of Western Australia Aboriginal pastoral workers under the
inspiration of two Aborigines , Clancy McKenna and Dooley Binbin , and a white
stockman , Don McLeod , went on strike for better pay in May 1946 . Despite ...
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White - collar workers were also challenged by technological change . Since the
late 1950s scientific laboratories and financial corporations had been using
computer technology , but it was only with the introduction of microprocessors in
the ...
White - collar workers were also challenged by technological change . Since the
late 1950s scientific laboratories and financial corporations had been using
computer technology , but it was only with the introduction of microprocessors in
the ...
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Contents
The People at War | 3 |
Pragmatism Ascendant | 59 |
Getting and Spending | 89 |
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 5 The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton |
| Editor | Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 019554613X, 9780195546132 |
| Length | 334 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand |
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