Barmaids A History of Women's Work in Pubs [Paperback]

This 1997 book is a mixture of cultural and labour history which traces the role of barmaids and Australian drinking culture.In this innovative mixture of labour history and cultural history, D iane Kirkby explores the central figure of the barmaid. Drawing on previously unused archives, new documentary sources and oral history, Barmaids traces the sexualisation of the industry and the feminist and temperence debates about it. It covers women's demands for equal pay and drinking rights in the post-war period and concludes in the mid-1990s with the labour market changes and drinking customs which saw the end of the old pub culture and the place of barmaids within it.In this innovative mixture of labour history and cultural history, D iane Kirkby explores the central figure of the barmaid. Drawing on previously unused archives, new documentary sources and oral history, Barmaids traces the sexualisation of the industry and the feminist and temperence debates about it. It covers women's demands for equal pay and drinking rights in the post-war period and concludes in the mid-1990s with the labour market changes and drinking customs which saw the end of the old pub culture and the place of barmaids within it.In this innovative mixture of labor history and cultural history, Diane Kirkby explores the central figure of the barmaid. Drawing on previously unexplored archives, new documentary sources and oral history, Barmaids traces the sexualization of the industry and the feminist and temperance debates about it. It covers women's demands for equal pay and drinking rights in the postwar period and concludes in the mid-1990s with changes in the labor market and drinking customs that saw the end of the old pub culture and the place of barmaids within it.Introduction; 1. 'No place for a woman?': pub-keeping in colonial times; 2. 'The photographer and the barmaid': narrating women's work 1850s1910s; 3. 'The problem of the barmaids': urbanisation and legislative reform 1870s80lӮ