The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
by David Ireland
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- Paperback
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Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 2013. Australian Author. Used. What was Puroil? At Clearwater it was a sprawling refinery, an army of white shirts, a fleet of wagons, a number of apparently separate companies, dozens of monolithic departments protected from each other by an armour of functional difference and jealousy. On the refinery site it was two hundred and fifty shabby prisoners, a heavy overload of foremen, supervisors, plant controllers, shift controllers, up to the giddy height of section heads (popularly miscalled Suction Heads, a metaphor deriving from pumps) who were clerks for the technologists; project and process engineers and superintendents who were whipping-boys for the???whisper it!???the Old Man himself, the Manager, who was actually only a Branch Manager and a sort of bum-boy for Head Office in Victoria, which was a backward colonial outpost in the eyes of the London office, which was a junior partner in British-European Puroil its mighty self, which was the property of anonymous shareholders. 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. ???It has been my aim to take apart, then build up piece by piece, this mosaic of one kind of human life...to remind my present age of its industrial adolescence.??? David Ireland This edition of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner comes with an introduction by Peter Pierce.
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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author David Ireland.
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- Title
- The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
- Author
- David Ireland
- Format/Binding
- Australian Author
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Text Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2013
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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