Sumptuary Regulation in Australia 1901-27: ATTA Doctoral Series, vol. 6
Author:   Caroline Dick (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Australia
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9780190312763


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   07 May 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Sumptuary Regulation in Australia 1901-27: ATTA Doctoral Series, vol. 6


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Unpicking the laws of consumption in early 20th century Australia.It is generally considered that sumptuary law is an archaic form of governmental intervention that targeted the personal lives of people living in the early modern period in Europe, and has no modern significance. This book examines the post Federation period, between 1901 and 1927, to reveal that the sumptuary impulse was not only alive and well in the emergent modern Australia, but was transmuted by a new patrician elite into a form of social and legal regulation.Sumptuary Regulation in Australia 1901–1927 contends that this regulation was enacted primarily to control the clothing and entertainment choices of working Australians. The impulse was sustained through taxation and fiscal legal mechanisms, wage cases, and through the agency of wartime regulations. All of these measures recall the sumptuary laws of early modern Europe.

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Author:   Caroline Dick (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Australia
Imprint:   OUP Australia and New Zealand
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9780190312763


ISBN 10:   0190312769
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   07 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Sumptuary Pattern Making: Using the English Design3. Shaping the Australian Sumptuary Experience: Individuals and Institutions4. Taxation in Australia up until 1914: The Warp and Weft of Protectionism5. The Sumptuary Impulse in `Living Wage' Cases6. The Prohibition of Luxury - the Plan to Stitch-up Australians with a Jingoistic Yarn7. Women and Moralisation v Men and Rational Protectionism8. A Strong Shift To A Rational Form Of Protectionism9. Conclusion

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Caroline Dick is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong.

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