The politics of work : gender and labour in Victoria 1880-1939 / Raelene Frances
1993, First Edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #433648
ISBN: 0521401992
Physical description; xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographys (pages 244-260) and index. Contents; pt. I. Before the Wages Boards. 1. The advent of machines and women: the clothing industries, 1880-1896. 2. An age of grim adversity: the boot industry, 1880-1896. 3. Drawing the line: the printing industries, 1880-1900 -- pt. II. Under the Wages Boards. 4. No more Amazons: the clothing industries, 1897-1919. 5. The workers baffled: the boot industry, 1897-1910. 6. Educating the girls: the printing industries, 1901-1925 -- pt. III. The Era of Federal Wage-fixing. 7. Diplomacy and guerilla warfare: the clothing industries, 1919-1939. 8. The Cinderella of the skilled trades: the boot industry, 1911-1939. 9. Marginal matters: the printing industries, 1925-1937 -- Appendix: Selected Employment Statistics, Victoria, 1880-1939. Subjects; Working class Australia Victoria History. Work environment Australia Victoria History. Sexual division of labor Australia Victoria History.
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