Working Lives

Work looked very different 100 years ago. Many people left school at 15, and some stayed with one employer for life. George spent 43 years at Murray Bros in Parramatta.

Allan saw medicine transformed during his career as a GP and anaesthetist. Beryl was a 'lady in black' at Manton's department store. Jim was a journalist at The West Australian, and Josephine began a lifetime of teaching and ministry at just 16. Margaret Bowman shows it's never too late: after raising seven children, she went on to earn two PhDs.

Together they tell the story of how Australians worked over the past century.