| The Yugoslav Women and their Pickled
Herrings is a poetic interpretation of working class women in the
workforce in South Australia and Victoria. 1960-2000 by South Australian
poet Cathy Young. It looks at the conditioning factors of girls
and women, migrant life, institution labour (the author having been
a "home girl") and other "down" jobs (factories,
strippers, prostitutes, outsourcing) - the duties and conditions,
lives, loves, psyches and role in the scheme of things from an historical
perspective determined by the social & political conditions
of the times.
This is a journey from child migrant to hard-headed woman who has
worked at 35 different jobs under 30 different pay systems, sharing
with the reader some of the interesting and diverse situations encountered
along the way.
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