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

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. The previous owner has removed the front blank end page, presumably to remove ownership details.

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, the internment of Aboriginal children, and 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 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