Yakka: Australia At Work (2023)
Synopsis
From working the land, to digging up minerals, from manufacturing to the services industry, Yakka: Australia At Work explores how work has shaped Australia from the Second World War to the present.
First Air Date: 2023-11-21
Last Air Date: 2023-12-12
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 4
Networks: ABC TV
Top Cast
- Gregory J. Fryer as Narrator
Seasons
Season 1 (2023)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Soil and Toil
Explore how since the Second World War, Australian agriculture has had to adapt to survive in changing global and domestic economies, a volatile political landscape, and face the challenges of an unpredictable climate.
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Ep. 2: Making a Nation
Explore how Australia was transformed from an agricultural economy into a manufacturing one & how this workplace revolution ended 40 years later amidst public acrimony, inflation, an oil crisis & the rise of the Free Market.
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Ep. 3: Groundbreakers
Post-war Australia: the miner. From the 1949 coal miners' strike to the 'Axe the Tax' demonstrations in 2010, the Aussie miner has exerted huge political influence on the workplace and the country.
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Ep. 4: At Your Service
The final episode is about the services industry and the workers who have created it, sustained it and now dominate it: Australian women.
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