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I was born in 1949 and grew up in a working-class family in inner Sydney. My father was a semi-skilled wood machinist who worked in timber yards all his working life. My mother was a housewife. When I turned 14, I did as expected and left school to work with my father in the timber yard.
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Pease, B. (2015). Injuries and Privileges. In: Michell, D., Wilson, J.Z., Archer, V. (eds) Bread and Roses. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_10
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