Urban transitions - Aboriginal men, education and work in Redfern Waterloo

Postcolonial Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 267-281

  Morgan, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84865277601     PISSN: 13688790     EISSN: 14661888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2012.693046     Document Type: Article

References (36)

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2. Redfern and Waterloo are contiguous suburbs to the south of the Sydney central business district, each with significant Aboriginal minorities.
3. Ann McGrath, Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in Cattle Country, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1987.
4. Ian Walden "'That Was Slavery Days": Aboriginal Domestic Servants in New South Wales in the 20th Century', in Kay Saunders, Ann McGrath and Jackie Huggins (eds), Aboriginal Workers, Sydney: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1995.
5. Mervyn Hartwig, 'Capitalism and Aborigines: The Theory of Internal Colonialism and Its Rivals', in Ted Wheelwright and Ken Buckley (eds), Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism, Vol 3, Sydney: Australia and New Zealand Book Company, 1978, pp 107-144. See
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11. Gibson, 'Making a Life', p 155.
12. Michelle Cunningham and Kathryn Davis, 'Labour Market Outcomes in Regional Australia', Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin, September, 2011. www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2011/sep/1.html (accessed 25 January 2012).
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16. See Janet McCalman, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1984.
17. William Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
18. Gillian Cowlishaw, The City's Outback, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009.
19. Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, 'Beyond "Identity"', Theory and Society 29(1), 2000, pp 1-47.
20. Kay Anderson, 'Constructing Geographies: Race, Place and the Making of Sydney's Aboriginal Redfern-Waterloo', in Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose (eds), Constructions of Race, Place and Nation, London: UCL Press, 1993, pp 81-99.
21. See Wendy Shaw, Cities of Whiteness, New York: Blackwell, 2008.
22. Don Weatherburn, 'Riots, Policing and Social Disadvantage: Learning from the Riots in Macquarie Fields and Redfern', Current Issues in Criminal Justice 18(1), 2006, pp 20-31.
23. Lucy Taksa, "'Pumping the Life-Blood into Politics and Place": Labour Culture and the Eveleigh Railway Workshops', Labour History 79, 1996, pp 11-34.
24. George Morgan, Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urban Life, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2006.
25. Fay Gale, Urban Aborigines, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1972.
26. Jeremy Beckett, A Study of Aborigines in the Pastoral West of New South Wales, Oceania Monograph 55, Sydney: University of Sydney, 2005.
27. See Morgan, Unsettled Places; George Morgan, 'Assimilation and Resistance: Housing Indigenous Australians in the 1970s', Journal of Sociology (Australia) 3, 2000, pp 187-204.
28. George Morgan, Aboriginal Migration to Sydney Since World War II', Sydney Journal 1(3), 2008, pp 75-82.
29. The author researched these archives (held in the NSW State Records Office) extensively during the late 1990s and early part of the last decade. Morgan, Unsettled Places.
30. Maggie Brady, Indigenous Australia and Alcohol Policy: Meeting Difference with Indifference, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004.
31. See Harry Blagg, Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonization of Justice, Sydney: Hawkins Press, 2008.
32. Chris Cunneen, 'Racism, Discrimination and the Over-Representation of Indigenous People in the Criminal Justice System: Some Conceptual and Explanatory Issues', Current Issues in Criminal Justice 17(3), 2006, pp 329-346.
33. Redfern Waterloo Authority, Redfern and Waterloo Employment and Enterprise Plan, 2006. www.redfernwaterloo.nsw.gov.au/other/final_eep_july06.pdf (accessed 25 February 2012).
34. Ian Watson, John Buchanan, Ian Campbell and Chris Briggs, Fragmented Futures: New Challenges in Working Life, Sydney: Federation Press, 2003.
35. While clearly it would have been ideal to produce longitudinal data, to map individual subjects over a long period, this was not possible within the time constraints of the research project. In the absence of longitudinal data, this permitted some insight into the development of masculinities.
36. Cowlishaw, The City's Outback, pp 23-26.