TY - JOUR
T1 - "I intend to get justice"
T2 - The moral economy of soldier settlement
AU - Scates, Bruce
AU - Oppenheimer, Melanie
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Soldier settlement was a key scheme in a suite of repatriation policies enacted in the aftermath of World War I. Across Australia thousands of returned men, including over 9,000 in New South Wales, took up the challenge and tried their luck on the land. Thousands failed. Through the voices of individual soldier settlers and using extensive and only recently released Department of Lands loan files, this article focuses on one aspect of the soldier settlement experience: their sense of moral economy. It argues that many soldier settlers drew on the labour movement's expectations of their rights and entitlements in an effort to deal with government bureaucracy within a context of failing markets, poor land and rising costs.
AB - Soldier settlement was a key scheme in a suite of repatriation policies enacted in the aftermath of World War I. Across Australia thousands of returned men, including over 9,000 in New South Wales, took up the challenge and tried their luck on the land. Thousands failed. Through the voices of individual soldier settlers and using extensive and only recently released Department of Lands loan files, this article focuses on one aspect of the soldier settlement experience: their sense of moral economy. It argues that many soldier settlers drew on the labour movement's expectations of their rights and entitlements in an effort to deal with government bureaucracy within a context of failing markets, poor land and rising costs.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84957799384&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5263/labourhistory.106.0229
DO - 10.5263/labourhistory.106.0229
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84957799384
SN - 0023-6942
VL - 106
SP - 229
EP - 253
JO - Labour History
JF - Labour History
IS - 1
ER -