The unknown industrial prisoner /
Ireland, David,
The unknown industrial prisoner / David Ireland ; [introduced by Peter Pierce.] - [2nd edition?] - Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, 2013. - xii, 448 pages ; 20 cm. - Text classics . - Text classics. .
First published by Angus & Robertson 1971.
On the shores of Botany Bay lies an oil refinery where workers are free to come and go—but they are also part of an unrelenting, alienating economy from which there is no escape. In the first of his three Miles Franklin Award-winning novels, originally published in 1971, David Ireland offers a fiercely brilliant comic portrait of Australia in the grip of a dehumanising labour system.
9781922147066 (paperback)
Fiction.
Working class--Australia--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Australian
A823.3
The unknown industrial prisoner / David Ireland ; [introduced by Peter Pierce.] - [2nd edition?] - Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, 2013. - xii, 448 pages ; 20 cm. - Text classics . - Text classics. .
First published by Angus & Robertson 1971.
On the shores of Botany Bay lies an oil refinery where workers are free to come and go—but they are also part of an unrelenting, alienating economy from which there is no escape. In the first of his three Miles Franklin Award-winning novels, originally published in 1971, David Ireland offers a fiercely brilliant comic portrait of Australia in the grip of a dehumanising labour system.
9781922147066 (paperback)
Fiction.
Working class--Australia--Fiction.
Australia--Fiction.
Australian
A823.3
