the difficulties of learning the Russian language (a feat at which Audrey excelled, and Tom did not), the incidences of love affairs and drinking between other comrades on the 3-week boat journey from Australia to Europe, and the dilemmas of balancing involvement in Soviet international study and advocacy with family responsibilities at home. Dare to Dream is written in lively, accessible prose for a general readership, and will be of immense interest to contemporary unionists, social movement activists and all politically engaged readers as well as providing a rich historical source for scholars of industrial relations, Australian politics, and gender, environmental and labour history. The book evokes a world of activism and idealism that was predicated on a far less fragmented and fluid working class than exists in Australia today. If the Australian left is to reconfigure the union movement in ways that enable it to occupy the same kind of seamless, everyday presence in lives of working people that it did in Tom and Audrey’s youth, books like Dare to Dream will be essential reading. This is not because they offer a blueprint for change (the historical and industrial circumstances of their times will not be coming around again), but because they offer invaluable inspiration as to how it is possible to marry a set of core values to the particular circumstances of the age, with an abundance of creativity, hope and tenacity.

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Eva Paus (ed.), 面对反乌托邦：新技术革命和工作的未来

学习俄语的困难（奥黛丽擅长的一项壮举，汤姆没有），从澳大利亚到欧洲的 3 周船程中其他同志之间的恋爱和饮酒事件，以及平衡参与的困境苏联的国际学习和倡导，在家中承担家庭责任。《敢于梦想》以生动、通俗易懂的散文写成，适合普通读者，将引起当代工会主义者、社会运动活动家和所有参与政治的读者的极大兴趣，并为劳资关系、澳大利亚政治、以及性别、环境和劳工历史。这本书唤起了一个激进主义和理想主义的世界，这个世界建立在一个远没有今天澳大利亚那么分散和流动的工人阶级之上。如果澳大利亚左派要以某种方式重新配置工会运动，使其能够像汤姆和奥黛丽年轻时那样在劳动人民的生活中占据同样的无缝、日常存在，那么像敢于梦想这样的书将是必不可少的读物。这不是因为它们提供了变革的蓝图（他们那个时代的历史和工业环境不会再次出现），而是因为它们提供了关于如何将一组核心价值观与特定环境结合起来的宝贵灵感这个时代，充满了创造力、希望和坚韧。