Sojourns: A New Category of Female Mobility

Rees, Anne

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“…Work or study rooted the sojourn in esteemed institutions or structures, and provided economic resources and incentives in the form of scholarships, wages and patronage. The pursuit of professional or educational opportunities could therefore legitimise female aspirations to mobility, providing the necessary stimulus or pretext for women to leave the domestic spaces of home and nation (Rees, 2019: 722).…”

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Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

Andrews

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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This article discusses the important role the BBC played in advancing the careers of ABC women in the post-war era. Adopting an integrated, transnational approach, it revisualises the British broadcasting empire from a dominion perspective, a gendered perspective. This research follows ABC television producers as they undertook transformative, transnational excursions and recognises the necessary mobility, flexibility and ingenuity women activated in order to succeed. It identifies how they exploited the imbalanced dominion dynamic and strategically used their BBC experiences to counteract the compromising gender constraints of their local production environments.

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Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

Andrews

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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“Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914

Robertson¹,

Fahey²

2021

Enterp. Soc.

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The Bryant & May company is well known for its operations in Britain. Historians have paid less attention to the actions of the company overseas. The opening of a new Australian subsidiary factory in 1909 marked an early venture in multinational manufacturing within the British Empire. This article uses business records and newspapers from both the British and Australian archives to examine the day-to-day operations of this multinational, with a particular focus on the human dimension of the interactions between London and Melbourne. The Bryant & May case study reveals the evolving, sometimes tense, relationship between the “home” and “subsidiary” branches in the context of British imperialism and Australian federation in the years preceding World War I. Business, personal, and imperial relationships intertwined. While business historians have developed theoretical frameworks to understand why companies embark on multinational operations, work remains to be done on the longer-term operations of companies in particular political, social, and cultural contexts. We examine the building of the Empire Works match factory in Melbourne, the nature of transnational management, labor relations, and key production challenges up to the Interstate Commission of 1914. We reveal how Melbourne managers, sometimes against the inclinations of the London directors, were prepared to drive a hard bargain with local politicians and workers. Bryant & May successfully, and sometimes controversially, gained competitive advantage as a “local” company with access to preferential tariffs. This placed the firm in an ideal position to prosper when international trade was disrupted during World War I.

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Lines of Exchange: Australian and New Zealand Women on Carnegie and Fulbright Programme Awards c. 1930s–1980s

Fitzgerald,

Kirkby,

Jordan

2024

History of Education

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Sojourns: A New Category of Female Mobility

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

“Wholly an Australian Industry”? Establishing British Multinational Manufacture at the Bryant & May Empire Works, 1909–1914

Lines of Exchange: Australian and New Zealand Women on Carnegie and Fulbright Programme Awards c. 1930s–1980s

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