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