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Women, work and the labour movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand / edited by Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates.

Contributor(s): Series: Labour historyPublication details: Sydney : Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1991.Description: x, 166 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 331.40994 20
Contents:
Experiences of a Queensland Aboriginal domestic servent : Agnes Williams talks to Jackie Huggins / Jackie Huggins -- Writing the history of women working : photographic evidence and the 'disreputable occupation of barmaid' / Diane Kirkby -- Marginal matters : gender, skill, unions and the Commonwealth Arbitration Court : a case study of the Australian printing industry, 1925-1937 / Raelene Frances -- Women workers and the New Zealand Arbitration court, 1894-1920 / Stephen Robertson -- Decently dressed? : sexualised consumerism and the working woman's wardrobe, 1918-1923 / Gail Reekie -- Selling soap : domestic work and consumerism in the inter-war years / Ann Stephen -- Gender, household and community politics : the 1890 maritime strike in Australia and New Zealand / Bruce Scates -- Women in industrial action : some female profiles in a redundancy strike in Vestey's New Zealand meat works, 1988 / John Leckie -- Sex or class? : the politics of the first equal pay campaign in Victoria / Melanie Nolan -- Responses of female industrial workers : a case study of the Guest biscuit factory, 1888-1899 / Melanie Raymond -- 'Toil and privation' : European women's labour in colonial Queensland / Katie Spearritt -- Sacred office, trade or profession? : the dilemma of Nurses' industrial activities in Queensland, 1900 to 1950 / Glenda Strachan -- Obituary : Manning Clark / Jill Roe.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 331.40994 WOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 67568

"First published November 1991 ... as issue 61 of Labour history".--Verso t.p.

"A special issue of Labour History. No. 61, November 1991." -- Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Experiences of a Queensland Aboriginal domestic servent : Agnes Williams talks to Jackie Huggins / Jackie Huggins -- Writing the history of women working : photographic evidence and the 'disreputable occupation of barmaid' / Diane Kirkby -- Marginal matters : gender, skill, unions and the Commonwealth Arbitration Court : a case study of the Australian printing industry, 1925-1937 / Raelene Frances -- Women workers and the New Zealand Arbitration court, 1894-1920 / Stephen Robertson -- Decently dressed? : sexualised consumerism and the working woman's wardrobe, 1918-1923 / Gail Reekie -- Selling soap : domestic work and consumerism in the inter-war years / Ann Stephen -- Gender, household and community politics : the 1890 maritime strike in Australia and New Zealand / Bruce Scates -- Women in industrial action : some female profiles in a redundancy strike in Vestey's New Zealand meat works, 1988 / John Leckie -- Sex or class? : the politics of the first equal pay campaign in Victoria / Melanie Nolan -- Responses of female industrial workers : a case study of the Guest biscuit factory, 1888-1899 / Melanie Raymond -- 'Toil and privation' : European women's labour in colonial Queensland / Katie Spearritt -- Sacred office, trade or profession? : the dilemma of Nurses' industrial activities in Queensland, 1900 to 1950 / Glenda Strachan -- Obituary : Manning Clark / Jill Roe.

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