Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia

by Anoma Pieris

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries driving postwar nation-building programs depended on the employment of large numbers of people who had been displaced by the war. Directed to remote, rural and urban industrial sites, migrant labor and resettlement altered the nation's physical landscape, providing Australia with its contemporary economic base...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805394576
• ISBN13: 9781805394570
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"