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Books of the Year 2022

A look back at 2022’s literary highlights
by Kieran Pender et al.
December 2022, no. 449

Books of the Year 2022

A look back at 2022’s literary highlights
by Kieran Pender et al.
December 2022, no. 449

Kieran Pender

Dreamers and Schemers by Frank BongiornoDreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia by Frank Bongiorno

For progressive Australians, 2022 was a year of optimism. But in these turbulent times, there is much work to be done to translate that hope into concrete reform that makes Australia a better place. My book of the year, Ben Schneiders’ Hard Labour: Wage theft in the age of inequality (Scribe), was a powerful reminder of the inequalities at the heart of Australian society. Schneiders, an investigative journalist, has broken most of the major wage-theft stories in Australia over the past decade, revealing hundreds of billions in unpaid wages by major companies. Hard Labour, his book-length account of that reporting, explains the frailties in our industrial system that permit such widescale exploitation and offers suggestions for reform. Dreamers and Schemers: A political history of Australia (La Trobe University Press, reviewed in the November 2022 issue of ABR), by Frank Bongiorno, promises to become the definitive Australian political history. Essential summer reading.

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