- Title
- Australian women's stories of work and play
- Creator
- Newton, Janice
- Date
- 2002
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/66233
- Identifier
- vital:647
- Identifier
- ISSN:0143-0955
- Abstract
- In the 1920s and 1930s working-class people from the inner suburbs of Melbourne, Australia took to the foothills of the nearby Dandenong ranges on weekends and public holidays to enjoy a bush picnic or holiday. It was a time in both Britain and Australia when working people were able to take family holidays in greater numbers. Unstructured interviews with former female visitors began with the purpose of gaining an insight into the leisure of the time. Information obtained along the way about working lives reinforced the importance of thinking about work and leisure in association with each other. The incidents that some women remembered from their working lives presented a strong and autonomous view of themselves. While such power could be seen as a realistic view of their holidays in the bush, it appears that the context of the interview relationship contributed to the highlighting of an assertive and lively work identity.; C1
- Publisher
- Oral History Society
- Relation
- Oral history Vol. 30, no. 1 (2002), p. 54-62
- Rights
- Copyright Oral History Society
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies; Leisure; Work; Women; Australia
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