Danger from below : anti-eviction struggles in Sydney, January to July, 1931

Drew Cottle; Angela Keys

Danger from below : anti-eviction struggles in Sydney, January to July, 1931

Drew Cottle
, Angela Keys

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Abstract

This chapter presents a case study showing how the repressive forces of the state were brought to bear on anti-eviction struggles in Sydney during the 1930s Depression. This deployment was stridently called for by the respectable and the propertied, who saw their powers challenged and their interests threatened in a social imaginary of bedlam, loss and destruction.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia
Editors	Scott Poynting, George Morgan
Place of Publication	Hobart, Tas
Publisher	ACYS
Pages	30-39
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781875236596
Publication status	Published - 2007

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

moral panics
depressions
eviction
civil rights
Sydney
N.S.W.

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Danger from below : anti-eviction struggles in Sydney, January to July, 1931

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