The Politics of Work
Subtitle: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 18801939 (Studies in Australian History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780521401999
Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history; Labour economics; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Labor Unions; Employment Of Women; Politics / Current Events; Work environment; History: World; Australia; Politics - Current Events; Australia & New Zealand - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History / Australia & Oceania; History; Sexual division of labor; Victoria; Working class
First sentence: The stirring tale of Melbourne's rise to wealth and glory in the wake of the 1850s goldrushes, and its subsequent decline in the depression of the 1890s, has been told and retold.