STRUGGLETOWN Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965

McCalman, Janet

ISBN 10: 0522842461 / ISBN 13: 9780522842463

Published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1984

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With illustrations, inscribed by the author to previous owner on verso of front endpaper, a very good copy in very good dustjacket. ; 240 x 160mm; x, 325 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 24870

Bibliographic Details

• Title: STRUGGLETOWN Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522842461
• ISBN 13: 9780522842463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • local history
  • AUSTRALIANA.

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Synopsis

"Struggletown" is a story of working-class life and politics in twentieth-century Australia. McCalman writes with vigour and passion, using the Melbourne suburb of Richmond during the period 1900 to 1965 as a fascinating microcosm. Dr Janet McCalman is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. In 1992 she was awarded the inaugural Max Crawford Medal by the Australian Academy of the Humanities for her scholarly achievement.

Synopsis

Since its first publication in 1984 Struggletown has become an Australian classic. Winner of numerous awards it brought a new vitality to the writing of local history with its unique blending of oral reminiscence politics and social history. It is the biography of a working-class generation born in the shadow of the depression of the 1890s; called to war in 1914; finding its feet in the 1920s only to be struck down by unemployment in the l930s; then rescued by the economic revival of World War II and the long post-war boom. It concludes with the coming of the new Australians in the 1950s and 1960s. But it is also the story of the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond, home of the legendary 'Tigers', of fierce Labour politics, of pride, loyalty and community. It is a story of human courage in the face of poverty and of love and friendship in the face of despair. This portrait of working-class life is moving, powerful and unforgettable.