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Finding the Threads: A Collection of Stories Told by Retrenched Workers About Their Lives and Work at Feltex Carpets in Braybrook, Melbourne
Bowen, Tricia (writer); Angela Bailey (photographs); Michele O'Neil (foreword)
Published by Textile Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia, Melbourne, 2006
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Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Finding the Threads: A Collection of Stories Told by Retrenched Workers About Their Lives and Work at Feltex Carpets in Braybrook, Melbourne. Several contributors. Written by Tricia Bowen. Photographs by Angela Bailey. Illustrated with colour photographs. Foreword by Michele O'Nei…l. From rear cover: "In October 2005, Feltex Carpets retrenched 165 workers from its Braybrook site. Some had worked there for 40 years. These are their stories - stories of shared lifetimes, families, food, friendships, injuries, jokes, fights, strikes and struggle and of many languages and cultures forging a community. Finding the Threads captures the comradeship, the wisdom and the connections of this group of retrenched Feltex workers". Thin booklet. Printed in Australia. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. vi + 64pp. Scarce. SB-1.
