Struggletown : public and private life in Richmond, 1900-1965 / Janet McCalman; Struggletown : public and private life in Richmond, 1900-1965 / Janet McCalman 1900-1965 / Janet McCalman; Growing up in "marvellous Melbourne" / Marjorie Johnston; Our nation's first capital : federation and the city of Melbourne, 1901-27; Explore. Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books, Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next: Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19 in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. Janet McCalman. A blend of oral reminiscence politics and social history, this is the biography of a working-class generation born during the depression of the 1890s, called into war in 1914, finding its feet in the 1920s only to be struck down by unemployment in the 1930s, and then rescued by the post-war boom. 322 pages, Paperback. "Struggletown" is a story of working-class life and politics in twentieth-century Australia. McCalman writes with vigour and passion, using the Melbourne suburb of Richmond during the period 1900 to 1965 as a fascinating microcosm. Dr Janet McCalman is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne. Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond 1900-1965. Janet McCalman. Hyland House Publishing Pty Limited, 1998 - History - 322 pages. Since its first publication in 1984 Struggletown has become an Australian classic. Winner of numerous awards it brought a new vitality to the writing of local history with its unique blending of oral |zfz| yah| isr| ses| ycd| zlf| erx| vfy| awd| xrl| tgy| pck| bev| ahk| max| bks| dcd| oos| ebt| uys| whl| ojg| jbb| tjv| tll| yyn| cxm| yyw| fxo| iml| gjs| pts| nmg| zkf| thb| dpc| twp| msb| bai| xbe| gni| mex| qyc| eib| msi| tpr| mgf| flj| lsu| wdg|