Yakka: Australia At Work

Explores 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 challenges of an unpredictable climate.

Explores how Australia was transformed from an agricultural economy into a manufacturing one and how this workplace revolution ended 40 years later amidst public acrimony, inflation and an oil crisis.

Explores how from the 1949 coal miners' strike to the `Axe the Tax' demonstrations in 2010, the Aussie miners have exerted huge political influence on the workplace and the country.

Explores the service industry and the workers who have created it, sustained it and now dominate it: Australian women.