Equal wages for Aborigines : the background to industrial discrimination in the Northern Territory of Australia / by Frank Stevens
- Bib ID:
- 2644204
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stevens, F. S. (Frank S.)
- Description:
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- [Sydney : Aura Press, 1968]
- 71 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Summary:
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Conditions of employment in cattle industry; table showing graduated wages scale; study undertaken by R.M. Berndt for Vesteys 1946 outlined; bad accommodation on stations, police control, employment, particularly young children, evasion of wages, bad medical attention, poor food, women exploited, low birth-rate attributed to vitamin deficiency and psychological malaise, misrepresentation of accounts by stations, social relations and decline in tribal practices, no formal education available for children; suggestion for monetary rewards rejected; notes on improved living conditions instituted by armed forces and noticeable appreciation; new government 1951 and conference on Aboriginal policy on assimilation; Court case, 1965; Unions case and employers case; connection between written evidence and labour ability; tables (middle pages) - explanation; verbal evidence, evidence not presented, dietary imbalance and work, diet and health, diseases; present system, with pension moneys collected by management of station, prejudice existing.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 60-71.
- Subject:
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- Wages -- Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Employment
- Employment - Conditions - Wages
- Law enforcement - Police conduct and attitudes
- Health status - Nutritional value of foods
- Health services
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- Defence - Armed forces - Veterans
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Government policy - Assimilation - 1951-1971
- Demography - Birth rate
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle
- Health - Physiology and diseases
- Education
- Employment - Conditions - Industrial relations - Trade unions
- Northern Territory (NT)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1968
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