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Title: A Wild awakening : the 1893 banking crisis and the theatrical narratives of the Castlereagh Street Radicals
Related: Labour history, Issue 85, No. 85, p.153-171
Related: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lab/85/
Publisher: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Date: 2007
Author/Creator: Hearn, Mark
Description: The Active Service Brigade (ASB) agitated on behalf of the Sydney unemployed during 1893–1894, in the wake of the 1893 banking crisis which heralded the onset of the colonial depression of the 1890s. The ASB declared its emergence in the working class districts of East Sydney in street theatrical marches and meetings. The Brigade and the anti-bank journal Hard Cash employed a melodramatic rhetoric of class conflict. Banker and free trade politician William McMillan was a symbolic villain of these theatrical narratives for his role in facilitating bank reconstruction and resistance to labour mobilisation, forcing his political withdrawal from East Sydney, and the labour precinct of Castlereagh Street.
Description: 19 page(s)
Subject Keyword: working class radicalism
Subject Keyword: active service brigade
Subject Keyword: narrative identity
Subject Keyword: labour history
Subject Keyword: Australian banking system
Subject Keyword: 1890s depression
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History

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