'Painting the future real' 1996: work and employment

The following images were used in this digital composite about working for a living on the basalt plain.

Workers at a Footscray bluestone quarry. The basalt from such quarries was turned into cobbles to pave the streets and lanes of Melbourne and Geelong, and was the raw material from which many of Melbourne and Geelong's now-historic buildings were constructed. Basalt slabs are now being used by Melbourne City Council to pave the city's walkways. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Workers on the beefline at the Angliss meatworks at Footscray. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Workers in a barrel factory at Footscray. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Workers in a huge spinning mill in Melbourne's West. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Workers in one of the many clothing factories that once employed many hundreds of people in Melbourne's West and in Geelong. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Footscray warf on the Maribyrnong River. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

An Albion truck being loaded at Footscray warf. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

A worker in a Footscray munitions factory during World War II. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

'Stan O.' operating a pipecutting machine in a metal workshop at Werribee.

The management of the McKay Massey Ferguson factory at Sunshine. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Workers socialising in a public hall. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Workers in their mess hall. Photograph contributed by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.

Scallop boats at Queenscliff photographed for the project by Merrill Findlay.

Workers at the Williamstown shipyards photographed for the project by Merrill Findlay.

Applied science teachers and students at Victoria University of Technology photographed by Mike Martin for VUT and contributed to the project on behalf of the university.

A professional cook tossing stir-fried vegetable in a wok, photographed by Mike Martin for Victoria University of Technology and contributed to the project by him on behalf of the university.

A masseuse in a gym at St Albans, photographed by Mike Martin for Victoria University of Technology and contributed to the project by him on behalf of the university.

A practitioner of Chinese traditional medicine photographed by Mike Martin for Victoria University of Technology and contributed to the project by him on behalf of the university.

Computer operator photographed by Mike Martin for Victoria University of Technology and contributed to the project by him on behalf of the university.

A smallgoods shop worker almost hidden by pickle jars, photographed for the project by Carmen Stewart.

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'Painting the future real' is an initiative of Imagine The Future Inc with the support of project partners.
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[Page history: created and first published on www.ecoversity.org.au as part of Painting the future real (1995-97), the prototype for Redreaming the plain (1998-2002); taken off-line in 1998 and re-posted in a slightly modified form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]

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