Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities beyond those available to them in the Australian colonies or dominion. In tracing the experiences of these women, this volume reveals hitherto unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.

To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity

History

Woollacott, Angela

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

The 1820s to the 1860s were a foundational period in Australian history, arguably at least as important as Federation. Industrialization was transforming Britain, but the southern colonies were pre-industrial, with economies driven by pastoralism, agriculture, mining, whaling and sealing, commerce, and the construction trades. Convict transportation provided the labour on which the first settlements depended before it was brought to a staggered end, first in New South Wales in 1840 and last in Western Australia in 1868. The numbers of free settlers rose dramatically, surging from the 1820s and again during the 1850s gold rushes. The convict system increasingly included assignment to private masters and mistresses, thus offering settlers the inducement of unpaid labourers as well as the availability of land on a scale that both defied and excited the British imagination. By the 1830s schemes for new kinds of colonies, based on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's systematic colonization, gained attention and support. The pivotal development of the 1840s-1850s, and the political events which form the backbone of this story were the Australian colonies' gradual attainment of representative and then responsible government. Through political struggle and negotiation, in which Australians looked to Canada for their model of political progress, settlers slowly became self-governing. But these political developments were linked to the frontier violence that shaped settlers' lives and became accepted as part of respectable manhood. With narratives of individual lives, Settler Society shows that women's exclusion from political citizenship was vigorously debated, and that settlers were well aware of their place in an empire based on racial hierarchies and threatened by revolts. Angela Woollacott particularly focuses on is settlers' dependence in these decades on intertwined categories of paid labour, including poorly-compensated Aborigines and indentured Indian and Chinese labourers, alongside convicts.

Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture

In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I.Munitions work offered working-class women—for the first time—independence, a reliable income, even an improved standard of living. But male employers and trade unionists brought them face-to-face with their subordination as women within their own class, while experiences with middle-class women co-workers and police reminded them of their status as working class.Woollacott sees the woman munitions worker as a powerful symbol of modernity who challenged the gender order through her patriotic work and challenged class differences through her increased spending power, mobility, and changing social behavior.

On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War

Business & Money

Economics

University of California Press

In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I. Munitions work offered working-class women―for the first time―independence, a reliable income, even an improved standard of living. But male employers and trade unionists brought them face-to-face with their subordination as women within their own class, while experiences with middle-class women co-workers and police reminded them of their status as working class. Woollacott sees the woman munitions worker as a powerful symbol of modernity who challenged the gender order through her patriotic work and challenged class differences through her increased spending power, mobility, and changing social behavior.

This is the history of a lnadmark California building and the people who have lived their lives in and around this California community. A lively text captures the story of Gilroy's city government form volunteer fire fighters and "frontier justice" through the events surrounding the two world wars. The building's transformation from city hall to popular restaurant telss an important historic preservation story.

Gilroy's Old City Hall, 1906-1989... (Local History Studies, Vol 34)

Pursell, Carroll

Myer, Chuck

Americas

California History Center

Humanities and Social Sciences for the Australian Curriculum Year 8 Pack

Children's Books

Cain, Julie

THOMAS, Alan

Skinner, Robert

Jeffery, Megan

Somers, Gillian

Peters, Nonja

Miller, Simon

Mackinnon, Alison

McInerney, Malcolm

Adcock, Michael

Cooke, Rex

Cunneen, Christopher

Dragovich, Deirdre

Larobina, Grace

Lergessner, David

McPherson, Judy

St Julian, James

Stocker, Laura

Tonizzo, Fiona

Geography & Cultures

Cambridge University Press

Humanities and Social Sciences for the Australian Curriculum Year 7

Robertson, Margaret

Thompson, Kate

Walker, Andrew

Davidson, Matthew

Malone, Richard

Boyer, Tamara

Boddy, Alan

BUTLER, Helen

Vlahogiannis, Nicholas

Education & Reference

Humanities and Social Sciences for the Australian Curriculum Year 9

Allen, Margaret

EVANS, RAYMOND

Ruckert, Heather

Sammut, Jesmond

BUTLER, DAVID

Written by Australia's leading history educators, History for the Australian Curriculum is a comprehensive and compelling series for Years 7-10 that caters for the different learning styles and abilities in Australian classrooms without sacrificing the depth and quality of content needed to successfully understand historical concepts and skills. This series encourages you to pose questions, analyse sources and use evidence to illuminate and enrich your understanding of the past. Using this inquiry framework, you develop historical knowledge and understanding, explore key concepts and apply essential skills as you study the societies, events, movements and developments that have shaped world history. A suite of innovative and flexible print and digital resources are available for each year level and can be combined in a number of ways to suit the needs of your school and your students: Print textbook; Print workbook; PDF textbook; Electronic workbook; Interactive Textbook; Teacher Resource Package.

History for the Australian Curriculum Year 9 Bundle 6

Catton, Stephen

Price, Stephanie

Siddall, Luis

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