Fighting Back
The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression
$74.63
- Paperback
1 pages
- Release Date
10 September 1996
Summary
Unemployed workers in Australia during the Great Depression were active, organised and remarkably successful in their aims.Work for the Dole is not a new idea. It was introduced in Victoria in 1932 and became one of the battlegrounds of unemployed politics. The provision and administration of sustenance, relief work, eviction of tenants from their homes, the issue of free speech-these were the major issues confronting unemployed workers and their families and organisations, and they fought su…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522849011 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522849016 |
| Author: | Charlie Fox |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 10 September 1996 |
| Weight: | 406g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 141mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
“Fighting Back asserts a bold claim for the rights of citizenship on behalf of Australia’s dispossessed.” –Australian Historical Studies
“This is an engaging, pugnacious and long overdue book. The author explores the intricate detail of how, in the midst of a devastating economic collapse, unemployed workers resisted the combined pressures of a barren labour market, coldly condescending charity, ineffective or overtly hostile agencies of the state, and yet still managed to fight back.” –The Journal of Industrial Relations
About The Author
Charlie Fox
Dr Charles Fox has been teaching in the History Department of the University of Western Australia since 1989, having studied and taught for several years in the History Department at the University of Melbourne. His previous books include Australians at Work (1989) with Marilyn Lake; Working Australia (1991) (winner of the 1992 Keith Hancock History Prize); Historical Refractions (1994); and Under Blue Skies (1996).
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