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An Accidental Utopia?: Social Mobility and the Foundations of an Egalitarian Society, 1880-1940
  

An Accidental Utopia?: Social Mobility and the Foundations of an Egalitarian Society, 1880-1940 (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Olssen, Erik; Griffen, Clyde; Jones, Frank

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An Accidental Utopia? investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand ranks fourth in the developed world for social inequality. It is our first systematic analysis of urban social structure, focusing on three major forms of mobility - marital, worklife and interg ...

ISBN 9781877372643
Published 14 July 2011 by Otago University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Class Gender and the Vote: Historical Perspectives from New Zealand
  

Class Gender and the Vote: Historical Perspectives from New Zealand (Paperback, illustrated edition)

By Fairburn, Miles; Olssen, Erik

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With the rise of the study of social history in the second half of the 20th century, the focus of many historians shifted from politics, high culture and foreign policy to areas including health, demographics, families, crime, women and immigration. This book shows the related pr ...

ISBN 9781877372025
Published 26 August 2005 by Otago University Press
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Series Otago History Series
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Class and Occupation: The New Zealand Reality
  

Class and Occupation: The New Zealand Reality (Paperback, illustrated edition)

By Olssen, Erik; Hickey, Maureen

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Provides a systematic attempt to identify New Zealand's actual occupational structure from 1893 to 1938, using the information gathered by a concensus. This book considers how best to construct an occupational structure for both the whole county and for regions and localities wit ...

ISBN 9781877372032
Published 10 November 2005 by Otago University Press
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Series Otago History Series
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Building the New World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s-1920s
   

Building the New World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s-1920s (Paperback)

By Olssen, Erik

These essays are the result of a study of the Dunedin working-class suburb of Caversham. Olssen discusses a number of important theoretical issues the writing of history, the question of class, the role of gender, the nature of work and the growth of the labour movement are all e ...

ISBN 9781869401061
Published 31 December 1995 by Auckland University Press
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The People and the Land / TE Tangata ME TE Whenua: an Illustrated History of New Zealand, 1820-1920
   

The People and the Land / TE Tangata ME TE Whenua: an Illustrated History of New Zealand, 1820-1920 (Paperback, reprint)

By Binney, Judith; Bassett, Judith; Olssen, Erik

The story of two communities, Maori and Pakeha, over the years 1820-1920. In the early nineteenth century the pakeha came to establish an 'English island' in the Pacific, and by the early twentieth century a recognisable nation had emerged - but for the Maori the tale is one of l ...

ISBN 9780046140137
Published 12 December 1994 by Bridget Williams Books
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Red Feds
 

Red Feds

By Olssen, Erik

ISBN SP2258
Published 1 January 1988 by Oxford University Press
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The Red Feds
 

The Red Feds (Hardback)

By Olssen, Erik

The history of the `Red' Federation of Labour from its beginnings in the coal mines of the West Coast of New Zealand.

ISBN 9780195581225
Published 1 October 1988 by Oxford University Press
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The Fruition: NZ Fruit Growers Federation 1991 - 2005
  

The Fruition: NZ Fruit Growers Federation 1991 - 2005 (Paperback)

By Olssen, Erik

New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation History

ISBN 9780473187088
Published 5 July 2011
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