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The time of their lives : the eight hour day and working life / edited by Julie Kimber and Peter Love.

The time of their lives : the eight hour day and working life / edited by Julie Kimber and Peter Love.
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Record Number 13706
ISBN 9780980388305
Location 331.88 TIM
Title The time of their lives : the eight hour day and working life / edited by Julie Kimber and Peter Love. [BOOK]
Published Melbourne : Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2007.
General Note Conference proceedings.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Note The time of their lives / Julie Kimber and Peter Love -- The ambiguous legacy of Samual Duncan Parnell: the 8-hour day in New Zealand / Kerry Taylor -- The traditions and significance of the 8-hour day for building unionists in Victoria, 1856-90 / Jeff Rich -- Celebrating the 'great boon': 8-hour day and early Labour Day in Rockhampton, 1909-1929 / Barbara Webster -- Harvester men and women: the making of the harvester decision / Charles Fahey and John Lack -- Among keen men and pampered ladies: the 8-hour working day debate in Sweden / Mikael Ottosson and Calle Rosengren -- Time after time: battles for shorter hours in the Victorian branch of the Federated Furnishing Trades Society / Lyn Beaton -- Babies, agency and waterfront women / Margo Beasley -- The relationship between textile and clothing workers and their trade unions / Claire Higgins -- The Australian Labour Movement and working mothers in the United Nations' Decade for Women, 1975 to 1985 / Patricia Grimshaw, Nell Musgrove and Shurlee Swain -- 'They can't take a trade off you': varying perceptions of job security over 50 years at the Midland Government Railway Workshops / Bobbie Oliver -- Printers and new technology around 1980: an 'Age' proof reader's view / Val Noone -- 'A kind of joy-bell': common land, wage work and the 8 hours movement in 19th century New South Wales / Ben Maddison -- Counting the days: historical entitlements to rest days in Western cultures / Rob Hitchcock -- A political economy of labour time / Drew Cottle, Angela Keys and Helen Masterman-Smith.
Summary Note Labour history; working life; 19th century; 20th century; politics of work; eight hour day; working hours; trade unions; work/life balance.
Subject Eight-hour movement -- History
Quality of work life -- History
Labour unions -- History
Labour movement -- History
Eight-hour movement -- History -- Congresses
Quality of work life -- History -- Congresses
Labor unions -- History -- Congresses
Labor movement -- History -- Congresses
Added Name Kimber, Julie
Love, Peter, 1947-
Added Corporate Name Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
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