The lean times : a study of the Melbourne waterfront during the 1928 strike
Greenwood, Kerry2013
Book
"By the use of newspaper and governmental records, this attempts to show that the clash that occurred in 1928 was the inevitable result of the co-existence of the stubbornness of the Bruce-Page Government and the ferocity of the rank-and-file wharfies. The strike went no further that a regional dispute, and dragged on so long and so painfully, because the central executive of the WWF was weak and chronically indecisive. The Federal Government was determined, conservative and in a majority, and used the strike as a heaven-sent opportunity to crush unionism once and for all. The results of the strike are indeterminate for the same reasons that the results of a war are indeterminate - there is no real winner. The Government lost the next election, but the WWF suffered a crippling blow and was slow to recover. The 1928 strike took on many aspects of a civil war, and thus was bloody, bitter, inconclusive and divisive."--title page verso.
Main title:
The lean times : a study of the Melbourne waterfront during the 1928 strike / by Kerry Greenwood.
Author:
Imprint:
[Melbourne] : [Kerry Greenwood], [2013?]
Collation:
39 pages ; 30 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Dewey class:
331.761387164099451331.7613
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
144547
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | Local History Reference | LH REF 331.7613 GREE | Not for loan (Set: 19 Sep 2017) |