Contents:
Militant spirits : The rebel women of Broken Hill / Sandra Bloodworth. This chapter is based on a thesis entitled Rebel Women: Women and Class in Broken Hill, 1889-1917, BA (Hons,) La Trobe University, 1996.
Brazen hussies and God’s police : Fighting back in the depression years / Janey Stone. An earlier version of this chapter appeared as ‘Brazen Hussies and God’s Police: Feminist Historiography and the Great Depression’, Hecate, vol. VIII (1) 1982.
Class struggle on the home front : Women, unions and militancy in the Second World War / Janey Stone. An earlier version of this chapter originally appeared as ‘Women in the Metal Trades’, Front Line, 5, International Socialists, Melbourne, December 1976.
Against the stream : Women and the left, 1945-1968 / Tom O’Lincoln. An earlier version of this chapter appeared as ‘Women and the Communist Party of Australia’, Hecate, Vol VI (1), 1980.
Equal pay : The insurance industry struggle 1973-75 / Diane Fieldes. An earlier version of this chapter appeared as ‘"Everybody Was ‘Girls’ in the Minds of the Management": The Fight for Equal Pay in the Australian Insurance Industry, 1973-75’, Labour History, 73, November 1997.
Sweatshop rebels : The 1981 Kortex strike / Sandra Bloodworth. This chapter is based on my own direct involvement with the strike, recounted in a talk at the 1982 Women and Labour Conference in Adelaide. The original published version was entitled ‘Migrant Women Organise: The Kortex Strike of 1981’, Hecate, vol. X, August 1983, later reprinted as a pamphlet, Sweatshop Rebels, Redback Press, Melbourne, 1983.
Dedication doesn’t pay the rent! : The 1986 Victorian nurses’ strike / Liz Ross. This chapter is based on my own direct involvement with the strike. An earlier version appeared as ‘Sisters are Doing It for Themselves ... and Us’, Hecate, vol XIII (1) 1987, later reprinted as a pamphlet, Dedication Doesn’t Pay the Rent!, Socialist Action, 1987.