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Weevils in the Flour: an oral record of the 1930s depression in Australia
by Wendy Lowenstein.
Scribe, Vic, 1989.
Reprint, paperback.
Front cover illustration by Roderick Shaw is from a mural in the Waterside Workers Federation Sydney Branch canteen.
Forward by Manning Clark.
One of the great social histories of Australia. Lowenstein notes that it was the development of the portable tape recorder that enabled her to travel around Australia in the 1970s collating working class memories of the Great Depression. One question the book seeks to answer is why, despite the widespread suffering among the working classes, there was no serious uprising.
Condition: Protected in plastic . Owner’s name title page scribbled out in back pen, minor wear to bottom edges, tanned pages and blue dot in pen on content page.