The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939The Politics of Work is concerned with the complex relationship between economic and technological change, the nature of sexual division in the workforce, and the role of union, employer and state activists. It carefully traces the impact of all of these factors on wage levels for men and women. The treatment of these themes touches on wide historical issues, as we follow the fortunes of Victorian manufacturing and consider the political strategies of the trade unions of the time and the state's response to them. The study is also an important piece of social history, evoking the nature of work for many Australians of the period. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Before the Wages Boards | 13 |
The advent of machines and women the clothing industries 18801896 | 22 |
An age of grim adversity the boot industry 18801896 | 43 |
Drawing the line the printing industries 18801900 | 58 |
Under the Wages Boards | 73 |
No more Amazons the clothing industries 18971919 | 81 |
The workers baffled the boot industry 18971910 | 100 |
Diplomacy and guerilla warfare the clothing industries 19191939 | 137 |
The Cinderella of the skilled trades the boot industry 19111939 | 151 |
Marginal matters the printing industries 19251937 | 169 |
Conclusion | 180 |
Selected Employment Statistics Victoria 18801939 | 193 |
Notes | 207 |
Bibliography of works cited | 244 |
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The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939 Raelene Frances No preview available - 1993 |
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