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One and All

One and All

Labor and the radical tradition in South Australia

Philip Payton

In this vivid account of the radical tradition in the Labor movement in South Australia, Philip Payton shows how the many thousands of people who emigrated from Cornwall to the newly-established colony in the nineteenth century brought their way of life with them. Overwhelmingly Methodist in religion, and united by their motto 'One and All', these Cornish migrants settled in the copper-mining districts of Burra, Kapunda and northern Yorke Peninsula. Here they laid the foundations for early trade unionism and an emergent Labor Party, culminating in 1910 in the Premiership of John Verran (a Cornish miner) who formed the very first social democratic Labor government anywhere in the world. Contributing to the unique character of Labor in South Australia, the Cornish helped craft the State's distinctive radical tradition, an enduring impact which Don Dunstan readily acknowledged in the 1970s and 1980s, and whose legacy is still apparent in the early twenty-first century.

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Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, where he was formerly Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, and is Professor of History at Flinders University as well as Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books, most on Cornish themes. Recent volumes include Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion: 1490-1690 (University of Exeter Press) and Vice-Regal: A History of the Governors of South Australia (Wakefield Press). He is an Honorary Life Member of the Cornish Association of South Australia, and is a bard of the Cornish Gorsedh. His bardic name Car Dyvresow means 'friend of exiles'.

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ISBN   9781743054307
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IMAGES   Greyscale illustrations throughout
PAGE COUNT   376
DIMENSIONS   234 x 156 mm

  • 'Thoroughly-researched and very readable.' - Derek R. Williams, The Cornish Banner

  • 'There is much to ponder and perhaps to learn from this welcome book.' - Jude Elton, SA Labour History News

  • 'Philip Payton brings his incomparable knowledge of Cornish and South Australian history to this important and lively account, revealing a South Australian Labor Party shaped powerfully by migration, Methodism and mining. At last, we have a book that does justice to a political organisation that has exercised a remarkable and surprising influence over the making of modern Australia. A distinguished contribution to Australian Labor history.' - Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno, School of History, Australian National University

  • 'This is a valuable contribution to Australian labor and political history, and the history of SA. It presents a unique view of the state's history from the Cornish copper-mining towns of the mid-north, but at the same time is an original, well-researched history of the state's Labor movement and party. The book is well written, enriched by Payton's unrivalled knowledge of Cornish history, and will certainly reward readers beyond Australia interested in labor movements.' - Angela Woollacott, Journal of Labor and Society

  • 'Contributes importantly to the history of radical political traditions in Australia, explains the distinctiveness of South Australia, and cements the transnational importance of the migration and mobility of workers in shaping their societies.' - Diane Kirby, Australian Historical Studies

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