Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1991-1992 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
2 boxes, 1 parcel.
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Name of creator
Administrative history
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: From lunchroom to boardroom : records of oral history project, Women in the Labor movement,1930-1970 / hosted by the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland, Women's Equal Opportunity Committee and the Public Sector Union, Queensland.
Collection alternatively titled as: Trades and Labor Council of Queensland Women's Equal Opportunity Committee Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by the Trades and Labor Council Equal Opportunity Committee/Public Sector Union (Qld).
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Forty open reel audiotapes of interviews, transcripts and documentation about the project, and accompanying posters.
From Lunchroom to Boardroom was an oral history project by historian Therese Collie and visual artist Judith Hewitson. The objective of the project was to record the stories of a wide variety of women who participated in the Queensland labor movement from the 1930s though to the 1970s. Funded in 1991 by the Australia Council, and supported by the Oral History Association of Queensland, the Union of Australian Women and the Trades and Labour Council. Interviews were conducted by Therese Collie. Transcripts of the interviews were compiled by Sue Pechey. Interviews with Joyce Murphy, Ivy Willey, Jenny Prohaska, Alice Hughes, Ivy Neilsen, Jean Bowden, Marie Crisp, Constance Healy, Jean O'Connor, Ida Welsh, Vi Cox, Susie Dickson, Frances Bishop, Julba Julba Woman Dance Troupe, Loma Thompson, Pat Bowe, Bessie Lymburner, and Elena Timms.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
This collection has been arranged into three series: Open reel audiotapes of interviews; Transcription of interviews; and Posters.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Freya Willis (2022) ‘"Don't be too polite girls": Gender hierarchies and women's leadership in the meatworkers' union in the 1970s’, Labour history (Canberra), (123):149–178.
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma MMS ID
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 30-Jun-2021. Updated into series and items, Amanda Main, 21-Nov-2019. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.