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The bitter years: Wollongong during the Great Depression

Len Richardson

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Description:Wollongong has been a major industrial centre since the 1930s. Yet its transition from rural mining community to steeltown was not an easy one. Essentially a farming community, the district had not fully shared in the general Australian prosperity of the 1920s. The announcement in 1926 that a new steel plant was to be built at Port Kembla, eight kilometres from the township, was therefore welcomed as an augury of better times. In the event, the timing could scarcely have been more unfortunate for, before the plant was complete, Australia was engulfed by the Great Depression.The Bitter Years examines the response of the Wollongong labour movement to the Depression. Despite the limited amount of work available, men continued to dirft into the sirict looking for work. The social and administrative structure of the district was placed under enormous strain and the result was desperate living conditions, an acute housing shortage and industrial pollution. The frustrations generated anger and sometimes violent conflict. Ultimately, the eperience produced a radical labour movement which set its face against the threats of militarism which emerged in the late 1930s. For many, the refusal of Port Kembla's watersiders to allow pig iron to be loaded for Japan was Wollongong's finest hour.Len Richardson trces the fortunes of the iners, the steelworkers, and the wharf labourers in these bitter years. And he looks at the response of the political groups - the Labor Party, the New Guard movement, the Communist Party - to the problems generated by the birth of an industrial town in a period of fundamental social change.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The bitter years: Wollongong during the Great Depression. To get started finding The bitter years: Wollongong during the Great Depression, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 256

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 1984

ISBN: 0908094949

Description: Wollongong has been a major industrial centre since the 1930s. Yet its transition from rural mining community to steeltown was not an easy one. Essentially a farming community, the district had not fully shared in the general Australian prosperity of the 1920s. The announcement in 1926 that a new steel plant was to be built at Port Kembla, eight kilometres from the township, was therefore welcomed as an augury of better times. In the event, the timing could scarcely have been more unfortunate for, before the plant was complete, Australia was engulfed by the Great Depression.The Bitter Years examines the response of the Wollongong labour movement to the Depression. Despite the limited amount of work available, men continued to dirft into the sirict looking for work. The social and administrative structure of the district was placed under enormous strain and the result was desperate living conditions, an acute housing shortage and industrial pollution. The frustrations generated anger and sometimes violent conflict. Ultimately, the eperience produced a radical labour movement which set its face against the threats of militarism which emerged in the late 1930s. For many, the refusal of Port Kembla's watersiders to allow pig iron to be loaded for Japan was Wollongong's finest hour.Len Richardson trces the fortunes of the iners, the steelworkers, and the wharf labourers in these bitter years. And he looks at the response of the political groups - the Labor Party, the New Guard movement, the Communist Party - to the problems generated by the birth of an industrial town in a period of fundamental social change.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The bitter years: Wollongong during the Great Depression. To get started finding The bitter years: Wollongong during the Great Depression, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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