Download or read book Australia and the Great Depression written by C. B. Schedvin and published by [Sydney] : Sydney University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia s Great Depression written by Joan Beaumont and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression. Highly Commended in the 2022 NSW Premier's History Awards Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great Depression. Today we remember long dole queues, shanty towns and destitute men roaming the country in search of work. With over a third of the workforce unemployed in 1932, Australia was one of the hardest hit countries in the world. Yet this is not the complete story. In this wide-ranging account of the Great Depression in Australia, Joan Beaumont shows how high levels of debt and the collapse of wool and wheat prices left Australia particularly exposed in the world's worst depression. Threatened with national insolvency, and with little room for policy innovation, governments resorted to austerity and deflation. Violent protests erupted in the streets and paramilitary movements threatened the political order. It might have ended very differently, but Australia's democratic institutions survived the ordeal. Australia's people, too, survived. While many endured great hardship, anger, anxiety and despair, most 'made do' and helped each other. Some even found something positive in the memory of this personal and communal struggle. Australia's Great Depression details this most impressive narrative of resilience in the nation's history. 'A magisterial account of an immense tragedy, told with authority, poignancy and drama.' - Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, The Australian National University 'A masterpiece by one of Australia's most esteemed historians' - David Day, historian 'Beaumont's brilliant study is the comprehensive history of the Great Depression that we have been waiting for.' - Stephen Garton AM, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, The University of Sydney
Download or read book The Great Depression in Australia written by Robert Cooksey and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Great Depression written by James Rickards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller! The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it. The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the weight of bad debts. Deflation, debt, and demography will wreck any chance of recovery, and social disorder will follow closely on the heels of market chaos. The happy talk from Wall Street and the White House is an illusion. The worst is yet to come. But for knowledgeable investors, all hope is not lost. In The New Great Depression, James Rickards, New York Times bestselling author of Aftermath and The New Case for Gold, pulls back the curtain to reveal the true risks to our financial system and what savvy investors can do to survive -- even prosper -- during a time of unrivaled turbulence. Drawing on historical case studies, monetary theory, and behind-the-scenes access to the halls of power, Rickards shines a clarifying light on the events taking place, so investors understand what's really happening and what they can do about it. A must-read for any fans of Rickards and for investors everywhere who want to understand how to preserve their wealth during the worst economic crisis in US history.
Download or read book Jack Lang and the Great Depression written by Frank Cain and published by Australian Scholary Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on documents in government and bank archives in Sydney, Canberra and London, this book gives a fresh interpretation of the Great Depression and its causes.
Download or read book Recovery from the Depression written by Robert George Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australia's economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. An international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated, in this volume, to look at the ways in which Australia survived economic depression and recovered from it, in the context of international comparison. A range of different aspects of these questions are considered. Chapters look at both the agricultural sector and the manufacturing sector of Australia. The unemployment which dominated the period is considered, together with response to it by the labour market and by the state. Policies to deal with depression, in the areas of budgetary and monetary control are evaluated. The Australian experience is set in the wider context of the world economy, with comparisons made with Britain and Canada, with New Zealand and with Japan.
Download or read book The Myth of the Great Depression written by David J. Potts and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian, David Potts has discovered that the myth of the Great Depression, as a time of great suffering, is often untrue or exaggerated. This book could dramatically overturn how we recollect the Great Depression.
Download or read book Australian Battlers Remember written by Keith Smith and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929 a world depression hit Australia with the speed of an express train. Its effects on the national economy were devastating and resulted in massive unemployment for hundreds of thousands of Australian workers and their families. There were no signs of future recovery and soon the susso, with its meagre handouts, became an accepted part of Australian life. By 1933 two-thirds of the male workforce and one-third of the female workforce were either unemployed or earning less than the basic wage. The personalities and future professions of many Australians including June Dally-Watkins, Sir Roden Cutler and Smoky Dawson all attest to the influence of growing up during the Great Depression Keith Smith made his name in Australian radio as a comedy writer, broadcaster and designer of original radio programs. In AUSTRALIAN BATTLERS REMEMBER- The Great Depression he has unearthed humorous, touching and horrifying stories from across Australia of the deprivations and hardships borne by a generation of Australians. These oral histories provide an intimate and compelling picture of family life during the most poverty-stricken period in Australia's history.
Download or read book Reset written by Ross Garnaut and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The nation’s most prophetic economist’—Ross Gittins In Reset, renowned economist Ross Garnaut shows how the COVID-19 crisis offers Australia the opportunity to reset its economy and build a successful future – and why the old approaches will not work. Garnaut develops the idea of a renewable superpower, he calls for a basic income and he explores what the ‘decoupling’ of China and America will mean for Australia. In the wake of COVID-19, the world has entered its deepest recession since the 1930s. Shocks of this magnitude throw history from its established course – either for good or evil. In 1942 – in the depths of war – the Australian government established a Department of Post-War Reconstruction to plan a future that not only restored existing strengths but also rebuilt the country for a new and better future. As we strive to overcome the coronavirus challenge, we need new, practical ideas to restore Australia. This book has them. La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc. and the University of Melbourne
Download or read book The Great Depression A Diary written by Benjamin Roth and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression—one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.
Download or read book Doing Time in the Depression written by Ethan Blue and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As banks crashed, belts tightened, and cupboards emptied across the country, American prisons grew fat. Doing Time in the Depression tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and the world—overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis. Ethan Blue paints a vivid portrait of everyday life inside Texas and California’s penal systems. Each element of prison life—from numbing boredom to hard labor, from meager pleasure in popular culture to crushing pain from illness or violence—demonstrated a contest between keepers and the kept. From the moment they arrived to the day they would leave, inmates struggled over the meanings of race and manhood, power and poverty, and of the state itself. In this richly layered account, Blue compellingly argues that punishment in California and Texas played a critical role in producing a distinctive set of class, race, and gender identities in the 1930s, some of which reinforced the social hierarchies and ideologies of New Deal America, and others of which undercut and troubled the established social order. He reveals the underside of the modern state in two very different prison systems, and the making of grim institutions whose power would only grow across the century.
Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Australia written by Simon Ville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.
Download or read book Survivors Of The Great Depression written by Vanna Gaetz and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia suffered badly during the period of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and rapidly spread worldwide. ... Unemployment reached a record high of around 30% in 1932, and gross domestic product declined by 10% between 1929 and 1931. As the story unfolds and people, at last, begin to emerge from the gloom of the Depression, it portrays in subtle overtones the growing threat beyond our shores which inevitably erupted and lured our society along other roads. No other Australian city suffered as much from the impact of World War II as did Brisbane. By the time the war ended the distinctive way of life, portrayed in this book, was gone forever leaving only memories of the Depression days and nostalgia for the many blessings enjoyed by the people of the north.
Download or read book Australia and the Great Depression written by Kay Margaret Thomson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1975 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weevils in the Flour written by Katharin Wendy Lowenstein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Depression written by Nicolas Brasch and published by Heinemann Library. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series brings to life significant events of the past through the accounts of people who were there at the time - the eyewitnesses. See history through the eyes of the everyday Australians who lived it. Each book features interviews, diary and journal entries, newspaper articles and official documents. The emphasis is on presenting primary source material that offers different points of view on a single event, thus exposing the reader to a number of opinions and offering them the opportunity to draw their own conclusions based on the evidence. Suitable for 13+ year olds. The Great Depression: 1929-1939 chronicles the causes and effects of the Great Depression, in Australian and around the world. It covers its impact on the lives of ordinary Australians, and the efforts undertaken to recover from it. Specially selected extracts from primary sources bring this period of Australian history to life!
Download or read book Unemployed Workers written by Ray Broomhill and published by St. Lucia, Q. : Queensland University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
