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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480519203321

Titolo

First Australians / / edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton ; with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cartlon, Victoria : , : Miegunyah Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-522-85954-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 pages)

Disciplina

994.0049915

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of

Aboriginal Australians - History

Electronic books.

Australia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008.

"This edition published 2010"--copyright page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. 'They made a solitude and called it peace' / Marcia Langton -- 2. 'What business have you here?' / James Boyce -- 3. How it starts / Bruce Pascoe -- 4. The sea met the desert, and the desert met the sea / RG Kimber -- 5. Blood history / Steve Kinnane -- 6. The schools of human experience / Wayne Atkinson -- 7. The dawn is at hand / Marcia Langton and Noel Loos.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire.Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals-both black and white-caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790407903321

Autore

Palmer Bryan D

Titolo

Revolutionary teamsters : the Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 / / by Bryan D. Palmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2013

ISBN

90-04-25486-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

Historical materialism book series, , 1570-1522 ; ; volume 53

Disciplina

331.892/813883240977657909043

Soggetti

Truck Drivers' Strike, Minneapolis, Minn., 1934

Truck drivers - Labor unions - Minnesota - History - 20th century

Strikes and lockouts - Trucking - Minnesota - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1. Revolutionary Trotskyism and Teamsters in the United States: The Early Depression-Years -- 2. The Mass Strike -- 3. Uneven and Combined Development: Class-Relations in Minneapolis -- 4. Trotskyists Among the Teamsters: Propagandistic Old Moles -- 5. January Thaw; February Cold Snap: the Coal-Yards on Strike -- 6. Unemployed-Agitation and Strike-Preparation -- 7. The Women’s Auxiliary -- 8. Rebel-Outpost: 1900 Chicago Avenue -- 9. The Tribune Alley Plot and the Battle of Deputies Run -- 10. May 1934: Settlement Secured; Victory Postponed -- 11. Interlude -- 12. Toward the July Days -- 13. A Strike Declared; a Plot Exposed -- 14. Bloody Friday -- 15. Labour’s Martyr: Henry B. Ness -- 16. Martial Law and the Red-Scare -- 17. Governor Olson: The ‘Merits’ of a Defective Progressive Pragmatism -- 18. Standing Fast: Satire and Solidarity -- 19. Mediation’s Meanderings -- 20. Sudden and Unexpected Victory -- 21. After 1934: the Revenge of Uneven and Combined Development -- 22. Conclusion: The Meaning of Minneapolis -- Appendix Trotskyism in the United States, 1928–33 -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Minneapolis in the early 1930's was anything but a union stronghold. An employers' association known as the Citizens' Alliance kept labour organisations in check, at the same time as it cultivated opposition to radicalism in all forms. This all changed in 1934. The year saw three strikes, violent picket-line confrontations, and tens of thousands of



workers protesting in the streets. Bryan D. Palmer tells the riveting story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build one large industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of what can be accomplished, even in the worst of circumstances, with a principled and far-seeing leadership.