One hundred years of women’s wage-fixing

Title: One hundred years of women’s wage-fixing
Creator: Frances, Raelene
Relation: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 5, Issue 2, p. 84-93
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/jigs-index.html
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2000
Description: What has the twentieth century meant for women’s paid work in Australasia? This article takes a broad historical perspective on this issue, in particular the implications of changing wage-fixing structures for women’s wages and conditions. It traces the changing perspective amongst feminist historians as the possibility of dismantling central wage-fixing became increasingly likely. The article explores the issues in an empirical context by drawing on the author’s collaborative/ comparative research with Canadian historians. It argues that such comparative analysis adds weight to the argument that arbitration has indeed offered a level of protection to Australian women workers that was not enjoyed by their counterparts in societies without an arbitration system.
Subject: women's wages; wage-fixing; history; paid work
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1047261
Identifier: uon:14754
Identifier: ISSN:1325-1848
Language: eng
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