Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia

2025/11/19 by James L. Watson · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Australian History and Society #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

paper · doi:10.1080/1031461x.2026.2582689

openalex publication_date 2025/11/19 · openalex created_date 2025/11/20 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Reading Anoma Pieris et al.’s Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia, I kept recalling a 1989 review essay by Stuart Macintyre for the London Review of Books. In the essay, Macintyre critic...

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