Winners and Losers: The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History

by Stuart Macintyre

Book Overview

What is a fair wage? Is there a right to work? Is there a right to shelter or to good health? What are the entitlements of those who cannot work? Can opportunities be equal? For women? For Aborigines?

For more than a century, Australians have addressed expectations of social justice to their governments and have had to live with the consequences.

This book looks at how changing circumstances have generated changing popular aspirations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0868614629
• ISBN13: 9780868614625
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"