Women at Work edited by Ann Curthoys, Susan Eade and Peter Spearritt

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly right foredge. Inside covers have sunned. Fading to spine. Body text and binding are still very good.

A collection of essays on women's employment and experiences in Australia, focusing on the intersection of gender and class.

Published during the height of the Australian feminist movement in 1975 as the result of a special project of the Australian Society of Labour History. Includes brief individual biographies and case studies of women activists and workers, and essays on:

• Wives of the radical labour movement
• Women, arbitration and family
• Women in Sydney factories 1920-50
• Women's wages and the web
• Jessie Street, feminist
• Women and politics
• Taking up, cutting up and putting down
• Towards a feminist labour history
• Women's labour
• Spinsters and trade unions in Victorian Britain
• Yours very truly, Marion Philips
• Women in China.