Kōrero: Women’s labour organisations

Helping unemployed women help themselves (2 o 2)

Helping unemployed women help themselves

Taken in June 1932 when unemployment was at its height, this photograph shows a shop window in Willis Street, Wellington. The assortment of handcrafts is explained by a sign saying ‘Please help the unemployed women and girls, every article in window is made by them’. The display was organised by the Women's Unemployment Committee, which had opened a workroom for jobless women and ran handcraft classes.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: 1/2-084162-G

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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Megan Cook, 'Women’s labour organisations - Women and unemployment', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/26370/helping-unemployed-women-help-themselves (accessed 25 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 20 Dec 2022