"Class Structure in Australian History - Poverty and Progress" by Terry Irving

Selected Works of Terence H Irving, Dr (Terry)

Book

Class Structure in Australian History - Poverty and Progress

(1992)

Terry Irving, University of Wollongong
Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

Abstract

First published in 1980, this book is an updated and reorganized account of the history of the class structure in Australia. A new chapter discusses the period 1975-1991, and there is a new theoretical chapter introducing the reader to modern debates about class. Separate sections for documents and photographs support the narrative. Extensive notes provide a guide to research literature.

Keywords

class structure,
history,
working class,
ruling class,
hegemony,
Australia

Disciplines

Inequality and Stratification,
Intellectual History,
Other History,
Political History and
Political Theory

Publication Date

1992

Publisher

Longman Cheshire

ISBN

0 582 71190 8

Citation Information

Terry Irving and Raewyn Connell. Class Structure in Australian History - Poverty and Progress. Melbourne(1992)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/terry_irving1/14/