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- catalog abstract ""Sustenance, relief work, evictions, free speech - during the Great Depression these were the major issues confronting unemployed workers. In Victoria, they fought successive governments over each one." "Charlie Fox takes issue with the prevailing orthodoxy that unemployed workers during the Great Depression were introspective, politically apathetic and concerned only with survival. To the contrary, they were active, organised and remarkably successful in their aims; government unemployment relief was as much a product of their political agitation as it was of government policies." "The unemployed movement was hampered by enormous difficulties; by the hunger and poverty of its members; by their need simply to survive; by the disengagement that accompanies individual powerlessness; and by resignation in the face of an incomprehensible disaster. That a creative and vigorous movement could exist in a decade of the worst poverty Australia has known is surely a tribute to the courage and resistance of the men and women who made unemployed politics." "Fighting Back is an absorbing work whose many strands demonstrate how complex the politics of unemployment actually was, and is. It shows that while the Great Depression is now little remembered, many old Depression attitudes remain with us."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11875921.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Sustenance, relief work, evictions, free speech - during the Great Depression these were the major issues confronting unemployed workers. In Victoria, they fought successive governments over each one." "Charlie Fox takes issue with the prevailing orthodoxy that unemployed workers during the Great Depression were introspective, politically apathetic and concerned only with survival. To the contrary, they were active, organised and remarkably successful in their aims; government unemployment relief was as much a product of their political agitation as it was of government policies." "The unemployed movement was hampered by enormous difficulties; by the hunger and poverty of its members; by their need simply to survive; by the disengagement that accompanies individual powerlessness; and by resignation in the face of an incomprehensible disaster. That a creative and vigorous movement could exist in a decade of the worst poverty Australia has known is surely a tribute to the courage and resistance of the men and women who made unemployed politics." "Fighting Back is an absorbing work whose many strands demonstrate how complex the politics of unemployment actually was, and is. It shows that while the Great Depression is now little remembered, many old Depression attitudes remain with us."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-276) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 281 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fighting back.".
- catalog identifier "0522849016".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fighting back.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press,".
- catalog relation "Fighting back.".
- catalog spatial "Australia Victoria".
- catalog subject "HD5850.V5 F69 2000".
- catalog subject "Unemployed Australia Victoria Political activity History.".
- catalog subject "Unemployed Political activity Australia Victoria History.".
- catalog title "Fighting back : the politics of the unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression / Charlie Fox.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".