NOTES
The epigraph is from the ode ‘Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ by William Wordsworth.
The quote from Heilbroner is from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner (Simon & Schuster, 1980), p. 311.
Parts of the story of my crescent and my father’s life story were told in the Age and other Fairfax newspapers on 8 February 2014; the piece was reprinted in The Best Australian Essays 2014, edited by Robert Manne (Black Inc., 2014).
The epigraph is from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ode to a Skylark’.
My tomato-stained copy of The Grundrisse is Marx’s Grundrisse, edited by David McClellan (Paladin, 1973). The sections on creative destruction are at pp. 100–101 and pp. 111–112.
The NATSEM figures are from Prices These Days: The Cost of Living in Australia, NATSEM 2012, p. 21.
Unemployment figures for Doveton and Dandenong come from Small Area Labour Markets, December Quarter 2014, Department of Employment, Commonwealth of Australia.
Historical income and inequality statistics about Doveton and workforce totals for the Big Three come from two previous studies of Doveton – An Australian Newtown: Life and Leadership in a New Housing Suburb by Lois Bryson & Faith Thompson (Penguin, 1972) and Social Change, Suburban Lives: An Australian Newtown, 1960s to 1990s, by Lois Bryson & Ian Winter (Allen & Unwin, 1999) – and from Australian Census QuickStats for postcode 2011.
The epigraph is from ‘Ozymandias’ by Shelley’s friend Horace Smith.
The closing poetic paraphrase is from Shelley’s version of ‘Ozymandias’.
The epigraph is from Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind’.
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson was published by Gollancz in 1963. I have used the Penguin 1982 edition. My quotations are from the Preface and Chapter 6.
My discussion on productivity owes something to my reading of the many columns on the subject by the Age’s economics columnist Ross Gittins, although the conclusions are my own.
The insights on America come from The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer (Faber & Faber, 2013).
The epigraph is from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The quote from Friedrich Engels comes from The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt (Allen Lane, 2009), p. 107.
The epigraph is from a letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay, taken from Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, by Richard Holmes (Harper Perennial, 2005), p. 27.