Your working conditions and paypacket have a history of
course; as does what you buy, who you buy it from, how companies
relate to the nation and manage their responsibilities to
their employees. Debates in the area of business history,
union history and work history are particularly fierce and
have long and conflicting perspectives.
Rather than enter into historiographical debate, we will
tell a few stories that help to inform stories of wage justice
(or injustice), egalitarianism (or its lack) and fiscal history.
Here, you can touch on stories of events like the Harvester
Judgement, people like George
Reid, institutions like protectionism,
places like Broken Hill,
where union disputes broke out, and cultural aspects including
the whole idea of tariffs.
These last may not sound fascinating, but they touch on hats
and gloves and the price of beeswax, the material of everyday
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