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.
| ISBN: | 9780521401999 |
| Publication date: | 23rd November 1993 |
| Author: | Raelene Frances |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 267 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Australian History |
| Genres: |
Australasian and Pacific history |
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 Politics of Work features in the following genres: Australasian and Pacific history
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The Politics of Work was written by Raelene Frances and published by Cambridge University Press
The Politics of Work has 267 pages
Yes it is part of Studies in Australian History series