Work studies / Year 10 / Career and life design / The nature of work

• TLF-IDM021757

The hub provides access to a wide range of resources developed to support remote Indigenous students. The resources employ multimodal learning frameworks to improve student engagement and overcome literacy barriers in order to provide a positive learning experience for Year 8 – 12 students while building students' self-confidence ...

• TLF-IDM002333

This is a satirical poem by Nathaniel Breakey McKay, older brother of industrialist Hugh Victor McKay, responding to the purchase by the Union of Chicago of a cemetery in which only members of the Union could be buried. The poem describes a staunch union member refusing to stay in heaven because it also includes non-unionists. ...

• TLF-IDM002643

This is a large double-sided trade union banner made by W G Dunstan for the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union of Australasia, Victorian Branch. It consists of a single piece of unprimed canvas, with images painted in oils on both sides. The banner has a red fringe on the bottom and hangs from a metal rod attached ...

• TLF-IDM002029

This is a black-and-white photograph of two workmen using the tools of their trade in the engineering workshop at Daniel Harvey Ltd, agricultural machine manufacturers. The men are standing at a wooden workbench, and the older of the two is wearing a hat. The photograph's dimensions are: length 21.5 cm x width 16.3 cm.

• TLF-IDM008736

This is a black-and-white print showing two contrasting scenes of 'slavery' produced by J Haven of Boston, USA. The top scene shows African American slaves in the US southern states dancing and playing the banjo after their day's work is over. The bottom scene shows four episodes of people lamenting the 'slavery' of work ...

• TLF-IDM002206

This is a black-and-white image showing male and female clothing and textile workers at a factory, probably in Melbourne, in the 1950s. They are shown standing or sitting at long workbenches on which they are cutting out pattern parts to be sewn into garments. Long lengths of white material have been laid out on the benches ...

• TLF-IDM002406

This is a digital copy of a black-and-white photograph showing Mr Perlman and Mr and Mrs Ribush outside the Bush's confectionery factory in Richmond, in about 1935.

• TLF-IDM009447

This is an extended sequence of lessons about the influence citizens can exert over government. The lessons focus on three topics: issues important to our class and the local community; the role of interest groups in Australia; and the role of interest groups in key issues in Australian history such as equal voting rights ...

• TLF-IDM025239

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to work in a mansion, for a wealthy family in the 1870s? How about in the 1930s? What kinds of jobs needed to be done back then? And what do those jobs look like today? Discover how working life has changed over the years by comparing dramatised historical accounts with ...

• TLF-IDM002574

This is a wooden framed noticeboard with a glass cover found at the Simpson's Gloves factory in Richmond, Victoria. Three paper notices regarding sick leave entitlements are attached with sticky tape. The board is 45.7 cm wide and 43.5 cm high. It is part of the Simpson's Gloves Collection at Museum Victoria.