ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that, in the case study of the Victorian nurses strike of 1986, home owners appeared to be just as willing as renters to enter into labour activism and that throughout the course of the strike housing tenure was a significant factor in differentiating the two groups, strikers and non-strikers. The case study of the Victorian nurses strike of 1986 examines the social action of striking and non-striking nurses. The detail of the interaction between housing market and job market is examined through a comparison of the causal significance of housing tenure upon the social action of strikers and non-strikers, bearing in mind that inaction is also a form of social action. Having compared these groups, we then examine each group separately to see if 'striking' home owners and 'striking' renters participated in the strike action in different ways, because of their tenure; similarly with non-strikers and their nonparticipation in the strike.
