James Watson is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. A graduate of the Australian National University’s School of History, he has written on the intersections of politics, economics, and social movements for The Guardian, History Australia, and Labour History . He is the author of the forthcoming Asbestos Nation: The Story of the Most Dangerous Dust in Australia (Monash University Publishing), as well as a forthcoming biography of the archaeologist Robert Etheridge junior. He is currently writing a history of economic discourse in Australia.