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Title: | Origins of the Present Crisis?: Fabianism, Intellectuals and the Making of the Whitlam Government | Contributor(s): | Bongiorno, Francis Robert (author) | Publication Date: | 2003 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1873 | Abstract: | In the television mini-series Waterfront (1983), set during the1928 strike, two wharfies arrive at a lively party. They encountera young man wearing a pale blue jersey and bow tie. He iscarrying a plate of sandwiches:...We can be fairly certain that this episode is a figment of thescript-writer's imagination, for there was no Fabian Society atMelbourne University in 1928. The message, however, could not be clearer. The labour movement belongs to manly tradeunionists who are after a 'decent feed'. Nerdy middle-class eggheadsspout irrelevant socialist jargon and have no place inlabour's struggle against injustice. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labour, p. 311-338 | Publisher: | Circa, Melbourne Publishing Group | Place of Publication: | Melbourne, Australia | ISBN: | 9780958093842 0958093849 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.melbournepublishing.com/circa.html http://books.google.com/books?id=mU5iAAAACAAJ |
Editor: | Editor(s): Hocking, Jenny and Lewis, Colleen |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter |
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