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Wage Rage for Equal Pay

Australia’s Long, Long Struggle

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  1. Jocelynne A. Scutt

    1. University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

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  • Contributes to the continuing legal and historical struggle for equal pay in Australia
  • Analyses and recounts campaigns, cases and debates
  • Takes law, history and women’s and gender studies into consideration

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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. 

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction: Work, Theory, Scholarship—Equal Pay, Pay Equity, and the Sex of Gendered Work

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 1-28

  3. Intermission: Pay and Personalities I

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 29-46

  4. A Nineteenth-Century Legacy—Early Days, Equal Pay, and Radical Women

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 47-73

  5. Alarums and Excursions: Infiltrating at the Palace of Versailles

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 75-88

  6. The Fortunes of the Flappers—The 1920s Generation Confronts the ‘30s

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 89-115

  7. Alarums and Excursions: Women Versus Men Versus Women

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 117-134

  8. Intruders on the Rights of Men? 1940s Women at War and Work

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 135-163

  9. Alarums and Excursions: Out of Bounds in the International Arena

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 165-180

  10. A Decade of Darkness—Or Into the Light? The Struggles and Successes of 1950s Women

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 181-206

  11. Alarums and Excursions: Women Versus Women Versus Men

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 207-223

  12. The 1960s—Decade of Radical Change, or Back to 1912?

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 225-254

  13. Intermission: Pay and Personalities II

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 255-276

  14. 1970s Ingenuity and Intellectual Rigour—Brazen Hussies Arguing Back

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 277-306

  15. Intermission: Pay and Personalities III

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 307-332

  16. A 1980s Skirmish into Comparable Worth

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 333-364

  17. Alarums and Excursions: Fictions, Fallacies and Fancies

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 365-387

  18. Enterprising Women Confront Enterprise Bargaining—‘I’m All Right, Jack’ Versus 1990s Woman

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 389-416

  19. Alarums and Excursions: The Inside Story—Women Working for Women in the 1990s

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 417-432

  20. Beyond The New Millennium—Forward to the Past, Back to the Future

    • Jocelynne A. Scutt
    Pages 433-462
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK

    Jocelynne A. Scutt

About the author

Jocelynne Scutt is Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK. She published Women and The Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs, Women, Law and Culture – Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict with Palgrave in 2016, and Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law – Performances in Plastic with Palgrave in 2020.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wage Rage for Equal Pay

  • Book Subtitle: Australia’s Long, Long Struggle

  • Authors: Jocelynne A. Scutt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42178-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42177-8Published: 12 April 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42180-8Due: 26 April 2025

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42178-5Published: 11 April 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 521

  • Topics: History, general, Labor History, Legal History, Economic History, Gender Studies

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