Australian Left Review

Article Title

Review : Under the Hook - Melbourne Waterside Workers Remember Working Lives and Class War, 1900-1980 by Wendy Lowenstein and Tom Hills

Authors

Drew Cottle

Abstract

In those "silent" days before oral history had achieved even its present bastard status in Australian intellectual circles, Brian Fitzpatrick penned an article for Meanjin entitled "The origins of the people are not in the library". Fitzpatrick could easily have exchanged the word "history" for "origins".