Fighting Back

by Charles Fox and Charlie Fox

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522849016
• ISBN13: 9780522849011
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"