num_pages: 304
description: The first of two volumes offering a radical history of capitalism in Australia, this book analyzes the social and political relations of the economic system that British imperialists first imposed on the original Australians 200 years from the country's beginnings as a colonial prison tothe consolidation of pastoral capitalism and emergence of the organized working class and the incipient manufacturing industry that preceded World War I.
language: English
title: No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia 1788-1914
titlecomplete: No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia 1788-1914
publisher: Oxford University Press