Bobbin Up was the first novel by the author Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002). It is set in 1957 in a spinning mill in Alexandria, an industrial suburb of inner Sydney, and describes the lives of fifteen working-class women who work there for breadline wages. The novel is a series of loosely connected vignettes, where the life of each woman and her family is described within one or two chapters. The book concludes with a stay-in strike by the women for reinstatement after a mass layoff.[1] Most of the group appear together in the final chapter.
As one of the few novels to give an accurate first-hand account of the lives of female industrial workers in the 1950s, it has continued to be studied.
^Jose, Nicholas (25 September 2016). "Nicholas Jose on 'Bobbin Up' by Dorothy Hewett". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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