The Modern Industrial Revolutions - PART III - Deindustrialisation, Globalisation, Economic Rationalism
- Image by Copilot Let's continue our sweep through history and take a look at the last 50 years or so, before we look at how we could best manage the latest wave of displacements. Bear with me here, because I think it's important to understand the economic and political climate as well as the thinking, which were the backdrop and sometimes the driver of the events which followed. If you were an Aussie kid born after the War II– things just got better and better. Although things might have been a bit tougher for migrants kids like us, they too continued to improve. Our family got a washing machine, not long after Mum got a job, then a refrigerator and finally, a small TV. Before that we, like other people stood around around in front of electrical shops to watch the flickering screen and once a week we would watch Disneyland at a friend's house. Around us, more and more families were getting cars. When we were old enough to get jobs, they were easy to find in an...