Keystrokes Per Minute
A limited series podcast about the women in the NZ Public Service Typing Pools from 1945 til the present day.
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Keystrokes Per Minute, a limited series podcast about the women in the New Zealand Public Service Typing Pools from 1945 til the present day. This NZ Podcast is themed around the topics of education, life in the typing pool, the public service and women’s work, and the impact of technology on the profession. Stories from the typing pool include typing hacks of the day, rubbish bins set on fire and some of the characte...
Interviewees tell us about their upbringing, their experiences of secondary education, and the impactful influence of parents and teachers, on subject choices, and future pathways to employment.
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In this episode we hear stories of discrimination and struggles with bias that girls, and young women had to overcome, to gain an education.
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This podcast is only made possible thanks to the work of the Keystrokes Oral History...
In this episode we hear about all the different pathways that led typists to getting their first job in the Public Service typing pools. Many interviewees remember their first few days and what the expectations were, their new colleagues and interesting characters found in and outside the typing room.
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In this episode we hear stories about the day-to-day operations of the typing pool, the physical layout, how the work was submitted, normally via a supervisor or head typist; how it was then distributed to the typists, whose job it was to ensure quality, and how documents were returned to the initiator. We will also learn some of the ingenious ‘tricks of the trades’ that typists used to cover up any mistakes.
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In this episode we hear stories of where interviewees’ careers progressed to, whether they stayed in the typing pool moving into senior or supervisory roles, whether they moved into other areas of Govt work, or left the Public Service all together.
Then we put the spotlight on the only typing pool that still exists today, that of the Medical Typists and Transcriptionists in District Health Boards across the country.
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In this episode we delve into the evolution of typewriter technology, the introduction of computers, and what impact that had on our interviewees. They regale us with the excitement and difficulties of new technology being implemented, and how swiftly dictaphone recorders replaced Shorthand dictation.
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In this episode we hear about what it was like to work for the NZ Public Service, how the standards, bureaucracy, and culture shaped the working lives of many typists, and then take a broader view of women’s work through the eras.
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Government Typists took action in 1985, after a stalled negotiation between the PSA, the public servants union, and the State Services Commission.
In this bonus episode we hear from all sides of the strike action; PSA representative Phil Butler; Dame Margaret Bazley, the State Services Commissioner in charge of industrial relations at the time; and Head typists Mary Dooley and Lorraine Williams.
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Lifetime member and former National President of the Association of Administrative Professionals NZ, Eth Lloyd, MNZM, fills us in on the history and extensive programme of work over the last 50 years.
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