The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural AustraliaThe Vision Splendid seeks to restore rural Australia to a central place in Australian history by showing how it has shaped Australian culture. It focuses on the culture of work and leisure and the changing conceptions of the Bush in the Australian mind from the late eighteenth century onwards. It maps, for the first time, the development of a set of cultural values and institutions in nineteenth-century rural Australia. |
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Page 107
... shearers were swollen by men from Sydney , Melbourne and New Zealand . Shearers came to have diverse social backgrounds . Travelling through the far west of New South Wales in the early years of the twentieth century , CEW Bean noted ...
... shearers were swollen by men from Sydney , Melbourne and New Zealand . Shearers came to have diverse social backgrounds . Travelling through the far west of New South Wales in the early years of the twentieth century , CEW Bean noted ...
Page 109
... shearers seem to have agreed to work for 17s 6d.144 But many shearers asked why , if wages needed to be cut in hard times , they were not raised in prosperous seasons , a question they answered by refusing to work in the sheds paying ...
... shearers seem to have agreed to work for 17s 6d.144 But many shearers asked why , if wages needed to be cut in hard times , they were not raised in prosperous seasons , a question they answered by refusing to work in the sheds paying ...
Page 110
... shearers struck for higher wages ; unionists continued to intimidate and sometimes even kidnap non- union workers ; and the Australian Workers ' Union , which had replaced the ASU as the union representing shearers and other rural ...
... shearers struck for higher wages ; unionists continued to intimidate and sometimes even kidnap non- union workers ; and the Australian Workers ' Union , which had replaced the ASU as the union representing shearers and other rural ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Culture of Work | 75 |
The Culture of Leisure | 113 |
Copyright | |
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