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Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression
Fighting Back The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression Author:Charlie Fox Work for the dole is not a new idea. It was introduced in Victoria in 1932 and became one of the battlegrounds of the politics of unemployment. In this important and topical study, Charles Fox shows that far from being apathetic, unemployed workers were active, organised and remarkably successful in their aims. The Great Depression may be little... more » remembered now, but old Depression attitudes remain with us.« less