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Race Mathews
Charles Race Thorson Mathews, always known as Race Mathews (born 27 March 1935)Curriculum Vitae: Race Mathews<!-- Bot generated title --> is a Co-operative economist, and former member of Victoria's State Parliament and Australia's Federal Parliament for the Australian Labor Party. he was a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University's Faculty of Business and Economics.Dr. Race Mathews<!-- Bot generated title -->
From 1972 to 1975, Mathews was the Federal Member for Casey, where he served as the Chairman of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties (1974–1975), and the Chairman of the Government Members' Committee on Urban and Regional Development. From 1979 to 1992, Mathews served as the State Member for Oakleigh in the Victorian Legislative Assembly during the Cain Government. In this capacity, Mathews served as the Chairman of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Co-operatives, the Minister for Community Services from 1987 to 1988, and Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Arts 1982–1987.
Mathews is the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books on politics and economics. These include "Building the Society of Equals: Worker Co-operatives and the A.L.P.,"Mathews, Race, "Building the Society of Equals: Worker Co-operatives and the A.L.P.," Melbourne : Victorian Fabian Society, 1983. "Jobs of Our Own,"Mathews, Race, "Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society," Sydney, Pluto Press (Australia), and London, Comerford & Miller, 1999. "Australia's First Fabians," Mathews, Race, "Australia's First Fabians: Middle-Class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement" Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. "Whitlam Re-visited: Policy Development, Policies and Outcomes,"Mathews, Race; Emy, Hugh; and Hughes, Owen; "Whitlam Re-visited: Policy Development, Policies and Outcomes", Sydney: Pluto Press, 1992. "Labor's Troubled Times,"Mathews, Race, Burchall, David "Labor's Troubled Times," Sydney: Pluto Press (Australia), 1991. and "Turning the Tide: Towards a Mutualist Philosophy and Politics for Labor and the Left."Mathews, Race, "Turning the Tide: Towards a Mutualist Philosophy and Politics for Labor and the Left," Melbourne: Australian Fabian Society and Arena Publications, 2001.
In the context of Co-operative Economics, Mathews supports distributism and strongly favours worker cooperatives as the basis of a left-wing economic model.
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