Labour History

Endnotes

1.For examples, seeWilliam A. Douglass, Azúcar Amargo: Vida y Fortuna de los Cortadores de Caña Italianos y Vascos en la Australia Tropical,Servicio Editorial Universidad del País Vasco,, 1996;Michele Langfield, andPeta Roberts.Welsh Patagonians: The Australian Connection,Crossing Press,, 2005;Robert Mason, ‘Anarchism, Communism andHispanidad: Australian Spanish Migrants and the Civil War’, Immigrants and Minorities, vol.27, no.1, March2009, pp.29-50. Google Scholar

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5.The main exception has been published interviews with Italian women which prioritise the women’s sense of isolation and rarely address political views. For examples, seeElizabeth Weiss andAnna Maria Kahan-Guidi(eds)Give Me Strength = Forza e Coraggio: Italian Australian Women Speak: A Bilingual Collection, 2nded.,Women’s Redress Press,,New South Wales1990;Tonina Gucciardo-Masci andOriella Romanin.Someone’s Mother, Someone’s Wife: The Italo-Australian Woman’s Identity and Roles,Catholic Italian Renewal Centre,, Victoria, 1988. Google Scholar

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