Elizabeth Christopher interviewed by Helen Reeves in the Cultural context of unemployment oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 262882
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Christopher, Elizabeth, 1965-, interviewee
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1985 Sep
- 1 audiocassette (ca. 60 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- Cultural context of unemployment oral history project.
- Summary:
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Christopher speaks of her schooling and her impression of the world before leaving school ; attitudes towards cities ; opinion of the work situation ; looking for work ; sex discrimination and sexual harrassment ; feelings of the long term unemployed ; being unemployed from a womens point of view ; the attitudes of CES ; her lifestyle and changes since being unemployed, including eating habits ; health ; living on the dole and community attitudes to this ; experience with legal aid ; opinion of overseas aid ; attitudes towards the unemployed partaking in community work.
Christopher speaks about living in Toowoomba ; the community and community reactions to the unemployed ; her personal philosophies of unemployment ; her family's support and the need for this ; getting married whilst being on the dole ; finances ; depression and feelings whilst unemployed ; the need for counselling ; local and international politics ; changes that occur whilst being unemployed ; women and unemployment ; her personal politics.
- Notes:
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- Recorded by the Brisbane Team (Rural) of the Cultural Context of Unemployment Project, a CEP Program administered by the National Library of Australia.
- Recorded on 6 and 11 September 1985.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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- Transcript available (35 p. + 36 p.)
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This belongs to the Cultural context of unemployment oral history project.
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- 1985
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