The breadwinner his wife and their welfare: identity, expertise and economic security in Australian post-war reconstruction
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Article Title | The breadwinner his wife and their welfare: identity, expertise and economic security in Australian post-war reconstruction |
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ERA Journal ID | 6876 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Firth, Ann |
Journal Title | Australian Journal of Politics and History |
Journal Citation | 50 (4), pp. 491-508 |
Year | 2004 |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Place of Publication | Melbourne, Australia |
ISSN | 0004-9522 |
1467-8497 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00349.x |
Web Address (URL) | http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118746682/issue |
Abstract | The architects of Australian post-war reconstruction had learned from the experience of the Depression that subordinating the social order to economic objectives could have disastrous results. In Australia as elsewhere, interwar political and civic institutions were not sufficiently robust to protect society from the instability of a system based on the economically rational choices of individual entrepreneurs. High unemployment, which had characterised the interwar years and reached catastrophic levels in the Depression, convinced the architects of post-war reconstruction that new political institutions were necessary. The civil and political institutions they attempted to create were expressed in a particular anthropology constituted around their own identity as experts and the identities of the entrepreneur, the breadwinner and his wife. |
Keywords | post-war reconstruction; Australia; economics; politics |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 380103. Economic history |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9z21v/the-breadwinner-his-wife-and-their-welfare-identity-expertise-and-economic-security-in-australian-post-war-reconstruction
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