Kōrero: Agricultural processing industries

Women’s place in the works (1 o 2)

Women’s place in the works

These women are quality testing sausage casings at the Westfield Freezing Works in 1948. Until the 1970s very few women worked in freezing works, and those who did were in lower paid jobs like this one.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, National Publicity Studios Collection
Reference: 1/2-034218-F
Photograph by W. Walker

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jane Tolerton, 'Agricultural processing industries - Meat processing from 1970s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25195/womens-place-in-the-works (accessed 25 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010