Wage Rage for Equal Pay Australia’s Long, Long Struggle

This book makes a major contribution to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia, with international references, including Canada, the UK and US. It takes law, history and women’s and gender studies to analyse and recount campaigns, cases and debates. Industrial bodies federally and around Australia have grappled with this issue from the early-twentieth century onwards. This book traces the struggle through the decades, looking at women's organisations activism and demands, union ‘pro’ and ‘against’ activity, and the 'official' approach in tribunals, boards and courts. 

1. Work, Theory, Scholarship: Equal Pay, Pay Equity and the Sex of Gendered Work.- 2. Intermission: Pay and Personalities I.- 3. A Nineteenth-Century Legacy: Early Days, Equal Pay and Radical Women.- 4. Alarums and Excursions: Infiltrating at the Palace of Versailles.- 5. The Fortunes of the Flapper: The 1920s Generation Confronts the 1930s.- 6. Alarums and Excursion: Women Versus Men Versus Women.- 7. Intruders on the Rights of Man? 1940s Women at War and Work.- 8. Alarums and Excursions: Out of Bounds in the International Arena.- 9. A Decade of Darkness - or into the Light? The Struggles and Success of the 1950s Woman.- 10. Alarums and Excursions: Women Versus Women Versus Men.- 11. The 1960s: Decade of Radical Change or Back to 1912?.- 12. Intermission: Pay and Personalities II.- 13. Ingenuity and Intellectual Rigour: Brazen 1970s Hussies Arguing Back.- 14. Alarums and Excursions: Facts, Fictions, Fallacies and Fancies.- 15. A 1980s Skirmish into Comparable Worth.- 16. Intermission: Pay and Personalities III.- 17. Enterprising Women Confront Enterprise Bargaining: 'I’m All Right Jack' Versus 1990s Woman.- 18. Alarums and Excursions: The Inside Story.- 19. Forward to the Past, Back to the Future: Beyond the New Millennium.- 20. Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting - Women’s Work, Women’s Rights and the Long Equal Pay Struggle.