Ep 2 – The Unemployed Workers’ Movement in 1930s Sydney

In 1929, the world plunged into the most catastrophic economic crisis in modern history – the Great Depression. With unemployment in Australia standing at over 33% of the workforce by the early 1930s, we look at how unemployed workers across Sydney organised on a massive scale and fought, in the face of vicious police and government repression, for the right of all people to have access to housing, food and the necessities of life irrespective of whether they could afford them or not. In this episode, we chat with author an historian Nadia Wheatley, who carried out pathbreaking research on the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Sydney. Find full show notes and links for this episode at our website - www.peopleshistory.com.au Support us on Patreon here - www.patreon.com/peopleshistoryofaustralia