Jean Grouns [Leunig]

Angliss Meat Works, Footscray - Interviews|Work & Labor - Women - Interviews|Angliss Meat Works, Footscray - Interviews|Meat Industry|Trade Unions|Work Experience - Biographies|Evans, George - Angliss Meat Works, Footscray (Vic.)|Wood, Florence - Angliss Meate Works, Footscray ( Vic.)|Allen, Robert - Angliss Meat Works, Footscray (Vic.)|Cruickshank, Margaret - Angliss Meat Works, Footscray ( Vic.)|Wrigley, Frederick - Angliss Meat Works, Footscray (Vic.)|Mathieson, Colin - Angliss Meat Works, Footscray ( Vic. )|Leunig, Jean - Trade Unions

Content as in title/subject.|0 - 3 mins : Starting work at Angliss meatworks at age 15. Working in the bag room. Pay rates|4 - 6 mins : Job description.|7 - 9 mins : Social life within the work place. No union involvement in their department in the 1930's. Living in a tent at the back of a boarding house in Footscray for 6 shillings a week.|10 - 12 mins : Surviving on her own at age 15. Boarding with the Rolf family. Boarding with her mum at the age of 19 in a house with a communal kitchen.|13 - 15 mins : Renting a bungalow. Seasonal work at Angliss. No annual leave or sick leave in the early 30's.|16 - 19 mins : Human resources decision making. Hiring and firing. Gender job descriptions.|20 - 22 mins : Facility conditions.|23 - 25 mins : Leaving Angliss to raise her family. Returning to Angliss, post-family, at the beef house to assist with slicing in the boning room.|26 - 29 mins : Offer to work in admin as the tea lady. Work enjoyment diminished in the boning room with the work demographic being predominantly migrant women.|30 - 33 mins : Personalities in the admin building. Department specific socialising. Workplace hierarchies.|34 - 37 mins : As above.|38 - 40 mins : As above. Meeting her husband at the annual Butcher's Picnic. General work socialising.|41 - 43 mins : General work socialising continued. Departmental work tallies.|44 - 46 mins : Job description. Time and Motion method of management with Vestey's.|47 - 50 mins : Job descriptions continued.|51 - 53 mins : Job descriptions continued. Pay rates per department.|54 - 56 mins : Proportion of male to female employed at Angliss. Gender specific roles. Changing gender-specific job roles from the 30's to the 60's.|57 - 59 mins : As above. Changes in the workplace with the Vestey's take-over.|60 - 62 mins : Effects of the main strike.|63 - 65 mins : As above.|66 - 68 mins : Union involvement. Jean tells the interviewers that she was never involved in a union. Gradual changes in employment conditions post-strike.|69 - 71 mins : Non-payment of holiday and public-holiday pay. Staff changes during the war period.|72 - 74 mins : Attitude of general employees and neighbours towards her post-marriage in comparison to pre-marriage. Jean's counter-attitude to those opinions.|75 - 77 mins : Working whilst pregnant. Comparative working conditions with Olympic Tyre factory.

Sound Disc 3

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

Marg Jacobs, Robyn Hollander

Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc.

Footscray (Vic.)

Sound Recording

130104587

VMLMW

1984