Mrs [Margaret] O'Brien

Munitions workers - Women - Interviews|Ammunition factory - Footscray - History|World War 1, 1914 - 1918|Angliss Meat Works, Footscray - Interviews|Women and Work|Work Conditions - Wages and Salaries|Trade Unions

*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. Parent's ancestry.|9 - 12 mins : Family home in Braybrook. Father's involvement in Boer War. Braybrook landscape in the 20's.|12 - 15mins : Education. Employment conditions.|15 - 18 mins: Employment conditions.|18 - 21 mins : Job role as an examiner at the Munitions works, work teams and gender specific roles. Building facilities.|2 1- 24 mins : As above. Uniforms.|24 - 27 mins : Cordite section.|27 - 30 mins : Socialising with the workmates. Seasonal work conditions.|30 - 33 mins : Sibling and general family employment in he workforce.|33 - 36 mins : Industrial accidents.|36 - 39 mins : As above. Monotony of position.|39 - 40 mins : Union involvement.

Sound Disc 3

sound disc 940 min.) :digital, stereo ;4 3/4 in.

[Rod FAulkner]

Melbourne's Living Museum of the West

Footscray, (Vic.)

Sound Recording

130104586

VMLMW

1984