Author: Buckley, Ken; Wheelwright, Ted.
Title: False Paradise: Australian Capitalism Revisited, 1915 - 1955.
Description: Melbourne Oxford University Press (OUP), 1998. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 278 pp. The second volume of a radical history of capitalism in Australia, told from the perspective of the working class by Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright. This book is a clear and readable political economic history of Australian people. It traces the impact of WW1 after 1918 on workers, capitalists, and the State, and discusses the ensuing crisis of the Australian political economy, being the Great Depression of the 1930s. A valuable text for students of history, politics, economics, and sociology, and general readers with an interest in Australia's past. ISBN: 0195535715

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