The Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union (AMWSU) launched Australia On The Rack in 1982 as part of a series of popular style economics pamphlets sent to every member of the union. The pamphlet featured in the AMWSU’s education programme and then spread quickly into the courses run by the newly emerging Trade Union Training Authority for union shop stewards and officials. Other pamphlets in this series included Australia Uprooted, Australia Ripped Off, and Australia on the Brink.

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