Reading Labels on Jam Tins: Living Through Difficult Times by Bill Bunbury

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. A couple of yellow stains which are probably caused by sun reaction. Please see images for more information.

Based on Bill Bunbury's ABC social history interviews. This book is a collection of personal accounts of difficult times. It includes goldrush times, the Great Depression, internment of Aboriginal children, pioneer life on the land and in the timber industry.

Chapters:

1. With Dollypot, Pick, and Shovel: Early Days on the Goldfields
2. Anybody Could Afford Us: Aboriginal Perspectives on Twentieth Century Australia
3. They Said You'd Own Your Own Farm: Group Settlement in the 1920s
4. A Bad Blue: The Australia Day Weekend Riots of 1934
5. Stonybroke and Walking: Memoirs of the Great Depression
6. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Aboriginal Internment
7. Something Unique, Something Majestic: Life in the Forests