Article: SOCIAL CHANGE, SUBURBAN LIVES: AN AUSTRALIAN NEWTOWN, 1960s TO 1990s.(Review)

SOCIAL CHANGE, SUBURBAN LIVES: AN AUSTRALIAN NEWTOWN, 1960s TO 1990s

Lois Bryson and Ian Winter, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1999, $29.95, xviii + 238 pages (paperback).

Lois Bryson and Faith Thompson's An Australian Newtown, published in 1972, helped spark an interest in community studies, and this follow-up account of the same suburb in the 1990s should have as dramatic an effect on sociology and social history in Australia. Bryson and Winter examine the fortunes of those most affected and least advantaged by the restructuring of Australian industry and society since the 1970s. It is in the quiet dramas of demoralisation, determination, hope and anxiety ...

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