| Main Title: |
The Wasted years? : Australia's great depression / edited by Judy Mackinolty. |
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| Publisher: |
Sydney, NSW : Allen & Unwin, |
| Collation: |
xiii, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits, notes, bibliography, index, hardback ; 23 cm. |
| Summary: |
The impact of the Great Depression of the 1930s, its causes and the panaceas; contemporary account of unemployment; statistics on the social and economic impact; bibliography of 800 items. |
| Subject: |
Economic depressions
Economic conditions
Nineteen thirties 1930s
The Great Depression (1929)
Australia
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| ISBN: |
086861131X |
| Notes: |
Bibliography: p. 213-253.
Includes index. Contents include: Mythology of the depression / Peter Spearritt p1; A closed book? The debate on causes / David Clark p10; “The Disinherited of the earth”? / Nadia Wheatley p27; Political protest in Wollongong / Len Richardson p42; “An evil long endured” / Sheilah Gray p58; Wonthaggi coal strike 1934 / Peter Cochrane p76; Woman’s place.../Judy Mackinolty p94; Letter to Clare / George Parr p111; Anti-political political thought / Peter Loveday p129; Non-Labor in South Australia / John Lonie p146; Was Queensland different? / Brian Costar p159; ‘Fools and madmen’ / David Clark p175; Depression statistics / Peter Spearritt p194; Bibliography / Murray Goot and Patricia Holt p213; Endnotes p255; Index p256.
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| Added Title: |
Australia's great depression
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