1. Fighting back today -- 2. Organising -- 3. Families and struggle -- 4. Single unemployed workers -- 5. Shelter -- 6. Striking on the dole -- 7. Relief work struggles -- 8. Fighting for the right to be heard
Summary
Work for the dole is not a new idea. It was introduced in Victoria in 1932 and became one of the battlegrounds of the politics of unemployment. In this important and topical study, Charles Fox shows that far from being apathetic, unemployed workers were active, organised and remarkably successful in their aims