Colonial Tears & Sweat - The Working Class in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand by Julia Millen
$47.50 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History
Secondhand. Tells the story of the forgotten immigrants whose presence in New Zealand, though unacknowledged, was vital to the prosperity of others. Special emphasis is given to the lot of single women and domestic servants, along with the vagabonds, dance girls, prostitutes and hotel workers.
Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand's Department of Labour 1891-1995 by John E. Martin
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History
Softback. 478 pages. SECONDHAND
Man for All Seasons: The Life and Times of Ken Douglas by David Grant
$22.50 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History | Reading Level: Very Good
Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he rose through the ranks, got deeper into left-wing ideology and activity with his membership of the Socia ...Show more
NZ Working People 1890-1990 by Eldred-grigg S
$37.50 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History
Prelude to Arbitration in 3 Movements: Ulster - South Australia - New Zealand 1890-1894 by W.J. Gardner
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History
Softback. 174 pages. SECONDHAND
Print & Politics: A History of Trade Unions in the New Zealand Printing Industry, 1865-1995 by Peter Franks
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History
Softback. 336 pages. SECONDHAND
Print and Politics: A History of Trade Unions in the New Zealand Printing Industry, 1865-1995 by Peter Franks
$32.50 NZD
Category: NZ Political History
This comprehensive history of trade unions in the New Zealand printing industry provides an absorbing insight into a century and a half of New Zealand history. From the early 1860s, when the first typographical unions were formed in Dunedin and Wellington, to 1996, when printers and journalists amalgama ...Show more
The Great '08: Blackball Coal Miners' Strike by Brian Wood
$85.00 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History
27 February until 13 May 1908
The Red and the Gold: An Informal account of the Waihi Strike, 1912 by Stanley Roche
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Labour Movement & Union History
This bitter and at times very violent strike was one of the worst in New Zealand history. This illustrated account provides a compelling picture of Waihi and its people on strike.