Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland (Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2006, viii plus 409 pp.)

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-537
Author(s):  
R. McManus
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
War Medicine

scholarly journals Labour Commodification and Classification: An Illustrative Case Study of the New South Wales Boilermaking Trades, 1860–1920

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Maddison
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Occupational Classification ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Illustrative Case Study

Labour commodification is a core process in building capitalist society. Nonetheless, it is given remarkably little attention in labour and social historiography, because assumptions about the process have obscured its historical character. Abandoning these assumptions, a close study of labour commodification in the boilermaking trades of late colonial New South Wales (Australia) illustrates the historical character of the process. In these trades, labour commodification was deeply contested at the most intimate level of class relations between workers and employers. This contest principally took the form of a struggle over the scheme of occupational classification used as the basis of pay rates. It was a highly protracted struggle, because workers developed strategies that kept the employers' efforts at bay for four decades. Employer efforts to intensify the commodity character of boilermakers' labour were largely ineffective, until they were given great assistance in the early twentieth century by the state arbitration system.

The First Ascent of Mt Lindesay – A Climbing ‘Whodunit’

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
South Wales

Mt Lindesay lies in the McPherson Range on the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Described by one early twentieth century writer as resembling ‘a crown pumpkin or a huge pudding mould’, its remarkable tiered upper section has long captured the imagination of those who care to gaze upon its vertical cliffs and dramatic lines.

scholarly journals A View of Sydney: The Taylor Panorama Reassessed

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
British Society ◽  
Military Officer ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Military ◽  
Settlement Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

In the 1820s British society had the opportunity to experience life in Sydney, New South Wales through the publication of a panorama of the military officer, Major James Taylor (1785–1829). The 1823 aquatints of his watercolours presented views of Sydney from the military area on the present-day Observation Hill. As well as communicating Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s progressive vision for a colony that was advancing beyond its status as a penal settlement, it presented its audience with narratives of life in Sydney. Taylor’s panorama survives through four preparatory watercolours and the three elegant aquatints. This publication drew sufficient interest to prompt subsequent editions in France and Britain. By the early twentieth century the work was valued in Australia as a record of the fabric of colonial Sydney, with later researchers discussing Taylor’s representation of various participants’ roles in the fledgling settlement. Analysis of Taylor’s study and its publication in Europe provides further insight into his composition and its reception, as well as furthering our understanding of life in New South Wales at that time.

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