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Author:
Edmunds, Mary, 1943- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95042125
Title:
A good life : human rights and encounters with modernity / Mary Edmunds.
Publisher:
Australia National University E Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xiii, 300 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Subject:
Human rights--Cross-cultural studies.
Social change--Cross-cultural studies.
Textile workers--Thailand--Social conditions.
Nuns--Spain--Social conditions.
Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions.
Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.
Business.
Competition, Unfair.
Human rights.
Australia.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.
Contents:
Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Thailand -- Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Spain -- Colonised people and the nation-state: Aboriginal Australia -- Modernity and human rights.
Summary:
This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thai factory workers in the 1970s; Spanish nuns in the 1980s; Aboriginal people in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia from the 1980s to the present.
ISBN:
1922144665
9781922144669
OCLC:
(OCoLC)828653848
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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