Mrs M. E. Walsh (Lella)

Women - Work & Labor - Interviews|Munitions Workers - Women - History|Ammunition Workers - Western Suburbs - Interviews|Walsh, Lella [M E] - Women and Work|Munition Industry - Maribyrnong - Interviews|Imperial Chemical Industries [ICI]|Depression, 1929 - 1939|Wages and Conditions

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 colleagues.|9 - 12 mins: Employment during depression. Piece work and salary. Supporting extended family. Marriage at 29 years of age. Moving to Yarrawonga during World War II. Social dances for charity.|12 - 15 mins : Social life . Job descriptions. Uniforms supplied and the requirements for standard dress.|15 - 18 mins : Uniforms continued. Employment process with security and clocking in and off.|18 - 21 mins : Employment relations. Work teams and rotations during the 8 hour working day. Union representation.|21- 24 mins : Pay rates during depression. Pay increases every 18 months. Family support and business support during the depression.|24 - 27 mins : Landscape surrounding ICI. Transport to work. Family chores out of work hours.|27 - 30 mins : Family synopsis. Facilities at ICI.|30 - 33 mins : Work camararderie. Work induction processes.|33 - 36 mins : As above. Provident fund development.|36 - 39 mins : Work accident compensation. Workplace changes over the ten years employment at ICI.|39 - 42 mins : Workplace conditions.|42 - 45 mins : Husband's employment at the Albion Explosives Factory and his industiral accident in the acid section at age 55?|45 - 46 mins : Husband's industrial accident continued.

Sound recordings 2

1 sound cassette (90 min.) :stereo. ; in container 11 x 7 x 1.8cm.

Jenny Mitchell

Melbourne's Living Museum of the West

Sound recording

130103054

VMLMW

VLMW 228

1984