The lowest link in the pitiless chain: Joe Maxwell VC's working-class perspective on the Great War

Title: The lowest link in the pitiless chain: Joe Maxwell VC's working-class perspective on the Great War
Creator: Ramsland, John
Relation: Radical Newcastle p. 69-77
Relation: https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/radical-newcastle/
Publisher: NewSouth
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: Joseph Maxwell was a boilermaker's apprentice from Hexham on the Hunter River whose life was transformed by the apocalypse of the Great War. The war led him to develop a particular radicalism which he expressed in his actions and his writing. Radicalism is not a single entity. It describes a cluster of notions and discourses, and the behaviour of any one radical individual is not always coherent or consistent with that of other radicals. One useful grouping made by historians is the Old Left, which emerged in the 1890s, and the New Left of the progressive 1960s and 1970s. Maxwell's published and unpublished writings and his occasional radical actions suggest that he could be roughly categorised as of the Old Left, sharing its pride in an Australian national identity and its belief in compulsory unionism, the egalitarianism of 'digger' mateship, masculine solidarity and anti-authoritarianism.
Subject: Joe Maxwell; radicalism; Great War; Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309633
Identifier: uon:21918
Identifier: ISBN:9781742232591
Language: eng

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