Sumptuary Regulation in Australia 1901-27

ATTA Doctoral Series, vol. 6

Caroline Dick (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong)

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OUP Australia and New Zealand
07 May 2018

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.

By: Caroline Dick (Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer University of Wollongong)
Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 472g
ISBN: 9780190312763
ISBN 10: 0190312769
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 07 May 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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