Sweatshop Women: Volume One gathers prose and poetry from twenty-five women writers from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds, building a collective portrait of Western Sydney.

Across stories of family, faith, sexuality, class, migration, language and suburban survival, the anthology moves between tenderness, vulgarity, humour, shame and memory without forcing its contributors into a single literary register or political posture.

Edited by Winnie Dunn with a foreword by Michelle Law, the collection captures the density of contemporary Australian life often flattened by mainstream publishing into either “multiculturalism” or pathology. What emerges instead is a textured chorus of voices: sharp, funny, restrained, angry, intimate and socially precise, documenting the emotional architecture of outer-suburban Australia in real time.

2019 paperback edition published by Sweatshop Western Sydney. Very good condition with light shelf wear; a clean, contemporary small-press title from one of Australia’s most important independent literary organisations.