Published in 1892 under the pen name John Miller, this novel follows Ned, a bush worker, as Nellie shows him round Sydney’s sweatshops, slums and Paddy’s Market on a Saturday night. Long conversations about land, capital and wages carry the argument of the labour movement Lane helped to lead in Queensland.
A founding document of Australian socialist fiction, written by the man who later led the New Australia colony to Paraguay. Download the free EPUB.