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: Being a white working-class academic man. In Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class (pp. 85–93). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-127-4_10
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