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This booklet, produced in conjuction with the 'Chops and Chimneys' exhibition, derives from transcript of interviews of five women who worked for the munitions industry.
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Two former employees discuss their work experience with H.V. McKay Industries ca 1935.

Master disc 2 of 2|Content:|0 - 3 min: Marriage in 1941 to Jean. Influence of mother's union . support. Meeting Jane at Angliss's.|3 - 6 mins : Setting up home in Maidstone. Supporting a wife and 5 children working a 70 hour week during war…

Original tape.|Note : No other details available. Subject categories taken from transcipt record. Accession number taken from cassette tape. Not listed on original database print out.

A former employee's work experiences with H. V. McKay Industries ca 1928.

Master tape 1.|Oral history tape as in title/subject.|Contents:|Nickle section; viewer; inspectors.

Content as in title/subject.|0 - 3 mins : Trade unions. Quantity control in the casing room.|4 - 6 mins : Human resource arrangements within the casings department. Union involvement. Personal integrity.|7 - 9 mins : Gender pay rates. Edna was at…

A photocopy of pictorial or munitions industry employment of women during WW II.

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2-19. Gordon St, Ammunition factory
22 - 37.Kinnears Rope Factory female employees

Rod Faulkner interviewing Minnie Moloney about the working conditions in the munitions industry during the world wars

Rod Faulkner inteviews Minnie Moloney on working conditions in the munitions industry during both world wars.
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Interviewer - Jenny Mitchell and Rod Faulker
Employees of ICI and Nobels discuss working conditions both favourable and unfavourable; pay rates and methods of salary and modes of transport to and from employment.
Added Note: Unfortunately, the…

Interviewer - Jenny Mitchell and Rod Faulker
Employees of ICI and Nobels discuss working conditions both favourable and unfavourable; pay rates and methods of salary and modes of transport to and from employment.
Added Note: Unfortunately, the…

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Master tape 1.|Oral history tape as in title/subject.|Contents:|Army inspector

Interview with Greek migrants recalling settlement and integration within Australian society in the 1960's.

Several employees discuss the processes involved in engineering at Massey Ferguson, and the work conditions on the factory floor from the years 1938 - 55. Visual of the working processes on the work floor by women.

Employees of Massey Ferguson discuss the processes involved in engineering and the work conditions on the factory floor. A female employee provides examples of the work processes involved and discusses her role during production of munitions in…

Master tape 1.|Oral history tape as in title/subject.|Contents:|E.F.M. 1942 - 4

*RESTRICTED ACCESS*|Content of interview not for public use.|Contents:|0 - 3 mins: Family History|3 - 6 mins: Casual work at Angliss Meat Works during spring lamb season.|6 - 9 mins : Coal workers strike and its effect on employment in the 20's. …

Master|Contents:|0 - 3 mins : Workplace accidents.|3 - 6 mins : Gelignite handling. Starting date at ICI when she was 19. Facility construction.|6 - 9 mins : Workplace accidents. Socializing out of hours with work colleagues.|9 - 12 mins:…

Copy. Inferior quality. Transferred using Mac software.|Contents:|0 - 3 mins : Workplace accidents.|3 - 6 mins : Gelignite handling. Starting date at ICI when she was 19. Facility construction.|6 - 9 mins : Workplace accidents. Socializing out…

*RESTRICTED ACCESS*|Content of interview not for public use.

Content as in title/subject.|Contents:|0 - 3 mins : Workplace accidents.|3 - 6 mins : Gelignite handling. Starting date at ICI when she was 19. Facility construction.|6 - 9 mins : Workplace accidents. Socializing out of hours with work…

*RESTRICTED ACCESS*|Content of interview not for public use.|Contents:|0 - 3 mins: Family History|3 - 6 mins: Casual work at Angliss Meat Works during spring lamb season.|6 - 9 mins : Coal workers strike and its effect on employment in the 20's. …

Content as in title/subject.|Contents :.|0 - 3 min : Years worked at the Munitions in 1918 - end then of WWI, then during WWII for 5 years. Shift work|3 - 6 min : Percussion cap section in Gordon St working conditions for both wars. Employment…

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1; Rod Faulkner interviewing Joan Conte and two work colleagues regarding the working conditions in the munitions factory during World War II.
2. Jenny Mitchell interviews three entertainers who describe he music style of Vaudeville…

Contents:
1; Rod Faulkner interviewing Joan Conte and two work colleagues regarding the working conditions in the munitions factory during World War II.
2. Jenny Mitchell interviews three entertainers who describe he music style of Vaudeville…

Authors account of the history of the meat industry in Victoria from the initial determination of the Wages Board in 1901, the beginning of the trade union through to trade and export and women in the workforce.

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Betty Johnson, nee Walsh, worked at William Angliss in the casings deparment in the late nineteen thirties and early forties as a teenager.

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Dorothy Joy, nee Cunningham, worked at William Angliss in the casings deparment in the late nineteen thirties and early forties as a teenager.
Photos consist of work teams. For names of team members, refer to summary sheet.

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'...the period of the early and mid-forties with women's conditons and struggle by women workers and the Sheet Metal Workers Union ... in particular for equal pay.'

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Author's thesis presented to University of Melbourne on the 1920's employment history of working-class women between World War I and depression.|A Department of Labour inquiry into working conditions at the Sunshine Harvester Works into conditions of…
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