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Author
Tierney, Robert
Title
Racial Conflicts in the Australian Automotive Industry in the 1950s: Production Line Workers, the Vehicle Builders Federation and Shop Floor Organisation
In
Labour History
Imprint
vol. 76, 1999, pp. 20-40
Abstract

Southern European and other non-English speaking background workers often experienced racial and xenophobic hostility in the Australian automotive industry in the 1950s. To a significant extent, racial and xenophobic prejudices emerged within the labour p