An economy is not a society : winners and losers in the new Australia / / Dennis Glover
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| Autore: |
Glover Dennis
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| Titolo: |
An economy is not a society : winners and losers in the new Australia / / Dennis Glover
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| Pubblicazione: | Collingwood, Victoria : , : Redback, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.994 |
| Soggetto topico: | Economic development - Australia |
| Government productivity - Australia | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Australia Economic policy |
| Australia Politics and government | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction: Dark Vision; Chapter 1: Places of the Heart; Chapter 2: The Suburb That Was Murdered; Chapter 3: Ground Zero; Chapter 4: The Lost Revolution; Chapter 5: History to the Defeated; Conclusion: To Really Care; Acknowledgments; Notes; Back Cover |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia's economic growth over the last three decades, they must also wear the blame for the social destruction that has accompanied it - the devastation of once prosperous industrial centres and the suburbs they sustained, as factories closed and workers were forced to abandon their trades. The social costs of this 'economic modernisation |
| Titolo autorizzato: | An economy is not a society |
| ISBN: | 1-925203-36-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821685303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Redback