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General Sources on New Zealand Labour and Trade Union History

 

James Bennett, Rats and Revolutionaries: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1940, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2004

 

Stevan Eldred-Grigg, New Zealand Working People, 1890–­1990, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1990

 

Raelene Frances & Bruce Scates (eds), Women, Work and the Labour Movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1991

 

Eric Fry (ed.), Essays in Australian and New Zealand Labour History, Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1986

 

James Holt, Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand: the First Forty Years, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1986

 

John E. Martin & Kerry Taylor (eds), Culture and the Labour Movement, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1991

  

Erik Olssen, The Red Feds: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908–1913, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1988

 

Bert Roth, Trade Unions in New Zealand – Past and Present, Reed Education, Wellington, 1973

 

Bert Roth & Janny Hammond, Toil and Trouble: The Struggle for a Better Life in New Zealand, Methuen, Auckland, 1981

 

Pat Walsh (ed.), Trade Unions, Work and Society: The Centenary of the Arbitration System, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1994

 

 

Selected Trade Union Histories

 

Conrad Bollinger, Against the Wind: The Story of the New Zealand Seamen’s Union, NZ Seamen’s Union, Wellington, 1968

 

Peter Franks, Print and Politics: A History of Trade Unions in the New Zealand Printing Industry, 1865–1995, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2001

 

David Grant, Those Who Can, Teach: A History of Secondary Education in New Zealand from the Union Perspective, Steele Roberts, Wellington, 2003

 

John E. Martin, Tatau Tatau – One Big Union Altogether, NZ Workers’ Union, Wellington, 1987

 

Len Richardson, Coal, Class and Community: The United Mineworkers of New Zealand, 1880–1960, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1995

 

Bert Roth, Advocate, Educate, Control: The History of the New Zealand Engineers’ Union, 1863–1983, NZ Engineering Union, Wellington, 1984

 

Bert Roth, Along the Line: 100 Years of Post Office Unionism, NZ Post Office Union, Wellington, 1990

 

Bert Roth, Remedy for Present Evils: A History of the New Zealand Public Service Association from 1890, NZPSA, Wellington, 1987

 

Bert Roth, Wharfie: From Hand Barrows to Straddles, NZ Waterside Workers’ Union (Auckland branch), Auckland, 1993

 

 

Industrial Disputes

 

Michael Bassett, Confrontation ’51: The 1951 Waterfront Dispute, Reed, Wellington, 1972

 

David Grant (ed.), The Big Blue: Snapshots of the 1951 Waterfront Lockout, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2004

 

Melanie Nolan (ed.), Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2006

 

Dick Scott, 151 Days: The Great Waterfront Lockout and Supporting Strikes, February 15–July 15, 1951, facsim. edn, Reed, Auckland, 2001

 

 

Working Life

 

Neill Atkinson, Crew Culture: New Zealand Seafarers Under Sail and Steam, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2001

 

Anna Green, British Capital, Antipodean Labour: Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915–1951, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2001

 

John E. Martin, The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Earner in Nineteenth Century New Zealand, Allen & Unwin, Wellington, 1990

 

Erik Olssen, Building the New World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s–1920s, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1995

 

 

Biographies

 

Maureen Birchfield, She Dared to Speak: Connie Birchfield’s Story, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 1998

 

Tom Bramble, Never a White Flag: the Memoirs of Jock Barnes, Waterfront Leader, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1998

 

Graeme Hunt, The Black Prince: The Biography of Fintan Patrick Walsh, Penguin, Auckland, 2004

 

Melanie Nolan, Kin: A Collective Biography of a Working-class Family, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2006

 

David Verran, Working Class Heroes (series of 7 booklets on union officials and unions in Auckland, Canterbury, Otago, Wellington and elsewhere), self-published, 1994–96