Women of steel : gender, jobs & justice at BHP / Carla Gorton & Pat Brewer
- Bib ID:
- 6938469
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gorton, Carla, author
- Description:
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- Ultimo, [New South Wales] : Resistance books, 2015
- 73 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781876646202
- Summary:
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"Women of steel is the inspiring story of a landmark struggle in Australia's industrial and political history. In the 1980s, 34 mostly migrant, unemployed women took on Australia's biggest corporation, Broken Hill Propriety (BHP) in a David and Goliath struggle known as the "Jobs for Women" campaign, and won. After nine years of campaigning, including street marches, a tent embassy, community education and alliance building, and legal action, the women won a sex discrimination case against BHP that led to hundreds of women being employed at its Port Kembla steelworks in Wollongong. BHP was later forced to pay significant compensation to the women for direct and indirect discrimination. Former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Sue Walpole described the case as "the most important piece of discrimination litigation that has occurred in this country". BHP mobilised huge resources to try to block and then overturn the women's victories every step of the way. In this book, women involved in the campaign speak about why and how they fought so hard, for so long and against such odds to win jobs and justice. Their words are an inspiration and full of lessons for all those campaigning for women's rights and against corporate greed today."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [71]-73)
- Subject:
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- Broken Hill Proprietary Company
- Broken Hill Proprietary Company -- Employees
- Sex discrimination against women -- New South Wales
- Sex discrimination in employment -- New South Wales
- Women iron and steel workers -- New South Wales -- Wollongong
- Unemployed women workers -- New South Wales -- Wollongong
- Women -- Employment -- New South Wales -- Wollongong
- Minority women -- Employment -- New South Wales -- Wollongong
- Women's rights -- New South Wales
- Steel industry and trade -- New South Wales -- Employees
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Brewer, Pat, author
- Also Titled:
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- Gender, jobs and justice at BHP
- Gender, jobs & justice at BHP
- Gender, jobs & justice at Broken Hill Propriety
- Gender, jobs and justice at Broken Hill Propriety
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