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The Politics of Work - Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Politics of Work - Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939 (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Studies in Australian History
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Australia has a strong tradition of labour historiography, which
until recently has been focused on the institutions of the labour
movement: trade unions and labour parties. This book shifts the
focus back to the workplace and looks at how and why the nature of
work changed during the period from the late nineteenth century to
World War II. The book focuses on three industries in the state of
Victoria: clothing, bootmaking, and printing. 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.
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