This thesis explores the sexual division of labour in three worksites associated with the Western Australian Fishing industry: fishers' households, a seafood processing company and fishing vessels. There has been no previous substantial study of the labour of women in Australian fishing industries. My research has been primarily undertaken by interviewing women and men who work in the Western Australian fishing industry, and my findings are presented through a comparison with overseas literature relative to each site. As I found, in the households of fishermen, women do unpaid and undervalued labour which includes servicing men and children; managing household finances and operating fishing enterprises. In seafood processing companies women are allocated the lowest paid and least rewarding work which is regarded as "women's work". On-the factory floor issues of class, race/ ethnicity and gender intersect so that the majority of women employed in hands-on processing work are migrant women froma non-English speaking background. The majority of women who work at sea are cook/ deckhands who are confronted by a rigid sexual division of labour, and work in a hyper-masculine workplace. The few other women who have found a niche which enables them to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle while they earn their own living, are those who work as autonomous independent small boat fishers. In each site there is evidence that women, individually and collectively, exercise some power in determining how and where they work, but they remain marginalised from the more lucrative sites of the industry, and have limited access to economic and social power.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Economics, 2004. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-162).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-293). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A. (Health Social Sciences))--Mahidol University, 2005.

Major paper (M.U.R.P.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Appendix #3 removed as requested by the author because of confidentiality requirements. Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-211). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.

A pesquisa aferiu junto as operárias da empresa metalúrgica FAET sua percepção do significado do trabalho e da sobrecarga doméstica em suas vidas. A partir de uma fundamentação da centralidade do trabalho na sociedade capitalista, da importância do trabalho para a formação do ser social e da influência da divisão social do trabalho na manutenção das desigualdades no âmbito do trabalho e da família. / The research verified, among women workers in the metallurgic company FAET, their perception of the meaning of their work and of the domestic surcharge they carry in their lives. This research was built based on some fundaments: the centrality of work in capitalist society, the importance of work to build the social being, and the influence of the division of work to maintain the prevailing inequalities in work and in family