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Intersections of gender and class: female employers and self-employed workers in interwar Queensland
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Intersections of gender and class: female employers and self-employed workers in interwar Queensland

Joanne Scott
Proceedings of the 9th National Labour History Conference, pp.207-214
National Labour History Conference: The Past is Before Us, 9th (Sydney, Australia, 30-Jun-2005–02-Jul-2005)
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
2005
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Historical Studies Business and Management female employers gender Queensland
Using a case study of interwar Queensland, this paper examines white female employers and self-employed women, groups whose role in the economy rarely attracts sustained attention from historians. After offering a brief explanation for this lack of attention, the paper explores four aspects of the experiences of these women: the types of businesses they operated, how and why they acquired those businesses, the income they generated, and the relations between female employers and their staff. All four aspects demonstrate the central influence of gender, but they also suggest a degree of flexibility in the gendered patterns of economic activity and female proprietors' ability to benefit from that flexibility.

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