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Article: Farm women and off-farm work: a study of the Queensland sugar industry.
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- Labour & Industry
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Introduction
For the majority of what is estimated to be the 630 000 people living on family farms in Australia, the farm is no longer the principal source of income (Garnaut & Lim-Applegate 1998). The significant social change that this shift to pluriactivity represents for farming and rural communities has been well reported in the rural sociological literature (for example, Evans & Ilbery 1993; Lawrence & Gray 1997; Gray & Lawrence 2001). It has not been widely discussed, however, in mainstream labour relations scholarship.
In contrast, this paper places rurality at the centre of its inquiry as it documents the non-farm paid work experiences of a ...