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‘Stumbling Forwards – Understanding Backwards’

Some Puzzles in the Life of One Working-Class Breakthrough

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Today I am a well-paid professor in a modern university. I live in a mortgage-free, multi-storied, architect-designed house in a green and leafy suburb. My income puts me just into the top decile of Australian income earners. Half a century ago I was growing up in the working-class suburb of Footscray seven kilometres from Melbourne.

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  1. Department of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia

    Rob Watts

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  1. University of Adelaide, Australia

    Dee Michell

  2. Federation University, Australia

    Jacqueline Z. Wilson

  3. Federation University, Australia

    Verity Archer

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Watts, R. (2015). ‘Stumbling Forwards – Understanding Backwards’. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_3

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