The Oxford History of Australia: 1901-1942, the succeeding ageIn 1901 the separate Australian colonies came together in a Commonwealth. Institutions were fashioned to meet the needs and aspirations of a nation, markets extended, industries enlarged. Over the next forty years Australians pursued schemes of material and social progress through war and economic crisis. This book locates these events within their international and imperial context. Like other regions of white settlement, Australia prospered as a pastoral and agricultural producer - yet it aspired to industrial self-sufficiency. It drew its financial and human capital from Britain and was bound to the parent country by bonds of trade, culture and sentiment - yet it yearned for autonomous nationhood. Four decades of endeavour merely demonstrated the extent of its dependence. This is a narrative history. It draws on the experience of diverse individuals to illustrate larger patterns, and it traces links between social, economic and political processes. But above all, it proceeds from the conviction that the historian must tell a story with purpose. |
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Page 46
... wage - earners in domestic service or workshops also earned less than men . Taken as a whole , the male worker earned twice as much as the female , and the skilled worker 30 per cent more than the unskilled . Yet wage rates tell us just ...
... wage - earners in domestic service or workshops also earned less than men . Taken as a whole , the male worker earned twice as much as the female , and the skilled worker 30 per cent more than the unskilled . Yet wage rates tell us just ...
Page 87
... wage - earners and small farmers , initially Labor achieved greater electoral success in the backblocks than it did in the cities . Hence from the beginning there was an im- pulse for a broad - based populism that emphasized the com ...
... wage - earners and small farmers , initially Labor achieved greater electoral success in the backblocks than it did in the cities . Hence from the beginning there was an im- pulse for a broad - based populism that emphasized the com ...
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... earnings for the majority of wage - earners . In 1932 the Commonwealth Arbitration Court rejected the unions ' application that they be given back the 10 per cent cut from the basic wage the previous year . The court based its 1933 ...
... earnings for the majority of wage - earners . In 1932 the Commonwealth Arbitration Court rejected the unions ' application that they be given back the 10 per cent cut from the basic wage the previous year . The court based its 1933 ...
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