Borland, JeffAustralian National University. Centre for Economic Policy Research2025-07-232025-07-237315225400725-430xhttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733767180Writing about the Australian wage-setting system in the 1930s W.K. Hancock (1930, p. 153) commented that ?...the dominant passion of Australian labour is for substantial equality?.ii, 51 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.en-AUAuthor/s retain copyright1998-09