Edna Thom

Title

Subject

Work & Labor - Women - Interviews|Angliss Meat Works, Footscray, 1942-1948 - Description|Pridham Meat Works|Meat Industry|Trade Unions|Work Experience - Biographies|Wages and Conditions|Johnstone, Audrey - Angliss Meat Works - Footscray, (Vic.)|Imperial Chemical Industries|Seelaf, George - Footscray & Yarraville Social Club

Description

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 Pridhams when the equal pay regulation was being instigated.|10 - 12 mins : As above. Senior management involvement with employees at Angliss. Sir William Angliss stories.|13 - 15 mins : Take-over by Vestey's. Payment of annual leave and public holidays. Sibling history.|16 - 18 mins : Working/social life. Familial roles.|19 - 21 mins : Returning to the workforce post-marriage. Changing attitudes to women returning to the work force post-marriage.|22 - 24 mins : Working at Angliss from 1942 - 1947 and then at ICI for 6 months.|25 - 27 mins : Angliss housing estate. Meeting with George Seelaf and the Communist Party in the guise of Footscray & Yarraville Social Club.|28 - 30 mins : Social life through the social club during the War. Overall impression of her working life at Angliss.|31 - 33 mins : As above.|34 - 36 mins : Funny incidents.|37 - 39 mins : As above.|40 - 42 mins : As above.
Sound recordings 3
1 sound cassette (42 min.) :stereo. ; in container 11 x 7 x 1.8cm.

Creator

Marg Jacobs, Stephanie Brown

Format

Sound recording

Identifier

130103152
VMLMW
VLMW 86.68.2

Date Created

1985

Citation

Marg Jacobs, Stephanie Brown, “Edna Thom,” Melbourne's Living Museum of the West , accessed May 4, 2024, https://mlmw.omeka.net/items/show/7792.