when: 11 August 2021 | venue: Online | cost: Free | address: See event description for details on how to connect. | tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/interpreting-the-great-strike-of-1917-tickets-164279126289
published: 26 Jul 2021, 5 min read
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The Great Strike of 1917 erupted on the NSW railways and tramways in August 1917 in response to a new way of monitoring worker productivity. The strike officially lasted just over 6 weeks, the consequences lingered for decades.
The Great Strike began on 2 August when employees at Eveleigh railway workshops and the Randwick tramsheds walked off the job to protest the new working conditions imposed during wartime.
In July-August 2017, the City of Sydney and Carriageworks presented an exhibition to mark this centenary. '1917: The Great Strike' was a commemorative show featuring large-scale images, moving footage, oral history excerpts and commissioned artworks depicting this important moment in Australian history.
Laila will consider how complex labour and economic histories can be interpreted and presented, using a range of sources and art forms.
Laila Ellmoos
Laila Ellmoos is a professional historian who is passionate about communicating history through exhibitions, talks and the written word. She is a historian at the City of Sydney, and a long-standing member of the Professional Historians Association of NSW & ACT.
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The Great Strike of 1917 erupted on the NSW railways and tramways in August 1917 in response to a new way of monitoring worker productivity. The strike officially lasted just over 6 weeks, the consequences lingered for decades.
The Great Strike began on 2 August when employees at Eveleigh railway workshops and the Randwick tramsheds walked off the job to protest the new working conditions imposed during wartime.
In July-August 2017, the City of Sydney and Carriageworks presented an exhibition to mark this centenary. '1917: The Great Strike' was a commemorative show featuring large-scale images, moving footage, oral history excerpts and commissioned artworks depicting this important moment in Australian history.
Laila will consider how complex labour and economic histories can be interpreted and presented, using a range of sources and art forms.
Laila Ellmoos
Laila Ellmoos is a professional historian who is passionate about communicating history through exhibitions, talks and the written word. She is a historian at the City of Sydney, and a long-standing member of the Professional Historians Association of NSW & ACT.
Go see Interpreting the Great Strike of 1917 2021.
Interpreting the Great Strike of 1917 2021 is on 11 August 2021. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Sydney. Call 02 9265 9333 for details.
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