ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the broad social structure established following the industrial revolution, with a particular emphasis on the post-World War Two ‘settlement’ and its creation of places and social structures within ‘organised’ capitalism. We trace the collapse of those communities into deep poverty in the wake of post-industrialisation. On the global stage, we explore the structure of poverty and inequality with its origins in slavery, colonialism, and post-colonialism. We also examine the legacy from those stages of globalisation for First Nations people, exemplified by a short review of contemporary socio-economic conditions experienced by the First Nations people of Australia.
