Australia's first women's labor history film, For Love or Money is an ambitious project and one of the most comprehensive films of its kind. Years of research turned up documents, film clips, photographs, letters, diaries, cartoons, poems, songs and newspaper articles; directors Megan McMurchy and Jeni Thornley, along with editor Margot Nash, have combined this wealth of history with contemporary interviews into a kaleidoscope of sounds and images. The informative montage, virtually lacking in talking heads, is rich in cultural signs and individual revelations. The film is divided into four parts: Hard Labour (1780s-1914), moves from the prisons of 18th century England, where women whose “crime” was poverty were incarcerated, through the Aboriginal women's experience of colonization, to the eve of World War I. Daughters of Toil (1914-1939) explores the effects of war on women's work, the women's antiwar movement, the consumer frenzy of the 1920s and the manipulation of women's labor through to the Depression. Working for the Duration (1939-1969) traces women's work through another war and another postwar “back to the home” campaign, focusing on intense equal-pay battles, as well as continuing the stories of the Aboriginal women introduced in earlier segments. Work of Value (1969-1983) examines the impact of feminism, and the implications of postwar developments in labor for both men and women.