The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Geoffrey Bolton Late nineteenth-century Australia claimed one of the world's highest standards of living and was seen as one of the most successful examples of the transplantation of British culture. Yet beneath the surface prosperity, there lay a great deal of uncertainty and conflict, including clashes among churches, the crash of the 1890s, pressure for federation, and the challenging of traditional views of education, women's roles, and the family. This volume takes a skeptical look at many of the common perceptions of Australia in the Victorian era, concentrating on human values rather than on the rhetoric of national achievement. |
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... industry and the production of building materials employed about one - third of the Vic- torian male workforce in the 1860s . Although the relative proportions of building and construction to other forms of manufacturing employment ...
... industry and the production of building materials employed about one - third of the Vic- torian male workforce in the 1860s . Although the relative proportions of building and construction to other forms of manufacturing employment ...
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... industry in the metropolitan areas was marked . The characteristic manufacturing establishment was small , often little more than a shed in a backyard , employing a handful of workers . Some of the complications of regulating factory ...
... industry in the metropolitan areas was marked . The characteristic manufacturing establishment was small , often little more than a shed in a backyard , employing a handful of workers . Some of the complications of regulating factory ...
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... industry should be protected by tariffs in order to encourage its growth as a reli- able source of both goods and employment seemed interfer- ing with the laws of nature . Competition , as Adam Smith taught , produced the survival of ...
... industry should be protected by tariffs in order to encourage its growth as a reli- able source of both goods and employment seemed interfer- ing with the laws of nature . Competition , as Adam Smith taught , produced the survival of ...
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