02602oam 2200373z 450 991079350370332120230206231753.01-988531-63-21-988531-65-9(CKB)4100000008275366(MiAaPQ)EBC5772695(EXLCZ)99410000000827536620190610d2019 uy 0engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe broken decadeprosperity, depression and recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39 /Malcolm McKinnonDunedin:Otago University Press,2019.1 online resource (513 pages)1-927322-26-X An Indian summer, 1928-30 -- Economy and adjustment, 1930-32 -- Out of mind, out of sight? the unemployed crisis, 1930-32 -- After the disturbances, 1932 -- How to raise prices, 1932-33 -- At odds, 1933 -- Expansion and protection, 1933-35 -- Back and forward to a welfare state, 1933-35 -- The 1935 election -- A Labour restoration? 1935-39 -- The Depression as history and memory, 1940-2015."The Depression of the 1930s was a defining period in New Zealand history. It had its own vocabulary -- swaggers and sugarbags, relief work and sustenance, the Queen Street riots and special constables -- that was all too familiar to those who lived through that tumultuous decade ... While the lives of those most affected by the Depression have been admirably documented in oral histories in various forms, the political and economic context, and the manoeuvrings and responses to the unprecedented conditions have not, until now, been given the extensive analysis they deserve. [This book] ... unpicks the Depression year by year. It begins by introducing the prosperous world of New Zealand in the late 1920s before focusing on the sudden onset of the Depression in 1930--31, the catastrophic months that followed and, finally, on the attempt to find a way back to that pre-Depression prosperity. Informed by exhaustive research, relevant statistics and fascinating personal accounts, and made accessible and meaningful by insightful analysis"--Publisher's description.Depressions1929New ZealandNew ZealandHistory1918-1945New ZealandEconomic conditions1918-1945New ZealandSocial conditions20th centuryDepressions993.032McKinnon Malcolm1530540BOOK9910793503703321The broken decade3775649UNINA