Immigrant women in manufacturing work

A substantial literature documents the difficult circumstances of immigrant women from non-English speaking backgrounds in urban Australia. This group has had considerable research attention since the 1970s, as Alcorso (1989) notes in her excellent review, resulting in distinct bodies of enquiry about immigrants in general and also about immigrant women. Our paper diverges somewhat from the starting point of most of this literature and considers the circumstances of immigrant women by explicitly comparing them with those of immigrant men.