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Made available to mark the centenary of the establishment of George Allen & Unwin Ltd on 4 August 1914, this brief account tells the story of Allen & Unwin from the founding of George Allen Publishers in the 1870s through the arrival of Stanley Unwin in 1914 and the setting up of a Sydney office in 1976, which in turn led to the management buyout in 1990 and the emergence of Australia's largest independent book publisher.
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by George Allen & Unwin, ltd. in London, 1915.
Originally published in 1965, and reissued here with a new foreword, this study, as far as was known, was the first attempt in this country to look at the problems of the families of prisoners on a national scale. It took over three years and is based upon a survey of a representative national sample of prisoners and their dependants, together with an intensive longitudinal study of a smaller sample. The survey attempts to portray objectively the conditions of life for the families of a wide range of men in prison at the time, and covers stars, recidivists, and civil prisoners. Too often in prison work, the family is thought of as some external appendage, remote and irrelevant to the process...