Peter D'Abbs - The Vestey Story

Australiasian Meat Industry Employees Union (Victorian Branch) 1960 Stapled, 50pp. "Brief history of private companies controlled by Vestey family; p.24-29; Vesteys and Aborigines, living & employment conditions on N.T. cattle stations, wage discrimination case, Wave Hill case; p.46-50; Postscript by Paul Fox - current conditions at Wave Hill, industrial unrest at Limbunya outstation. From introduction: "This book is about the power wielded by the Vestey family. The Vesteys' family has done - more successfully than most, what our whole social system teaches us to do - devote itself to making money. The English "establishment" recognised this by elevating the two Vestey brothers who started the business to the peerage. Sir William Vestey was made a Baronet in 1913 and a Baron in 1922; Edmund Vestey was made a Baronet in 1921. The underlying theme of this book is not just the activities of the Vestey family but the nature of a society which encourages and honours the Vestey style of accumulating wealth.". Owner's Name inside. Cover is worn and marked.". Fair.

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