Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- A Surprising Struggle? The AMIEU (Qld) and the Fight for Equal Wages in the Meat Processing and Export Industry in the 1950s and 1960s
- In
- Labour History
- Imprint
- vol. 77, 1999, pp. 140-159
- Abstract
In the 1950s, the Queensland branch of the AMIEU initiated and led a campaign for equal wages for women in the meat export and processing industry. In doing so, the AMIEU (Qld) was alone, as other state branches were not inclined to pursue it and the Vict