Past Activities

Seminars 1987-2005

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2005 seminar: Working People, Trade Unions and the Vietnam War

2003 conference: The 1913 Strike — 100 Years On: a laboratory or a battleground of democracy?

2001 conference: Lockout ‘51: fifty years on

1998 seminar: Celebration to Mark the 100th Anniversary of Paul Robeson’s Birth

1997 seminar: Fifty Years of Struggle: the story of equal pay

1996 seminar: The PSA and the Lewin Years: personalities, influences and events

1996 seminar: A Commemoration of Max Bollinger’s Life

1995 seminar: Trade Unionism in the Era of Fintan Patrick Walsh

1994 seminar: The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act

1993 seminar: Dissenting New Zealand (featuring Rona Bailey)

1992 seminar: Bert Roth’s Contribution to Labour History

1990 conference: Culture and the Labour Movement (including a re-creation of the first Labour Day Parade in October 1890, an art exhibition and a film festival)

1990 seminar: Development of Trade Unionism in New Zealand

1988 seminar: Recording Oral History

Publications 1987-2004

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2004
The Big Blue: snapshots of the 1951 waterfront lockout, David Grant (editor), Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

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

1997
Worker Holidays in New Zealand: a brief history, TUHP, Wellington

To Labour with the State: the Fiji Public Service Association, Jacqueline Leckie, University of Otago Press, Dunedin

Fifty Years of Struggle: the story of equal pay, TUHP, Wellington

1996
Disaster at Brunner: the coalmine tragedy at Brunnerton, New Zealand, Brian Wood, self-published, Greymouth

1994
Pioneering New Zealand Labour History: essays in honour of Bert Roth, Pat Walsh (editor), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North

Trade Unions, Work and Society: the centenary of the arbitration system, Pat Walsh (editor), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North

Working Class Son: my fight against capitalism and war, Ron Smith, self-published, Wellington

1993
From Wheelbarrow to Carryall: a story of some Public Works communities in New Zealand 1904-1956, Charles M. Herbert, TUHP, Wellington

1992
Through the Mill and Other Stories (2nd edition), Frank Collins, Dunmore Press. Palmerston North

1991
Culture and the Labour Movement: essays in New Zealand labour history, John Martin and Kerry Taylor (editors), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North

Born of Hunger, Pain and Strife: 5o years of struggle against unemployment in New Zealand, Auckland Unemployed Rights Centre, Auckland

1990
Days of Action, Bert Roth, TUHP, Wellington

New Zealand Working People 1890—1990, Steven Eldred-Grigg, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North

The Forgotten Worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth century New Zealand, John Martin, Allen and Unwin, Wellington

1989
Strike: trouble at t’mill (story of the 1899 Petone woollen workers’ strike), Barbara Fill, GP Books, Wellington

1988
Annotated Guide to the Archives of the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1937-1988, Cathy Marr (collator and editor), Dunmore Press, Palmerston North

The Lucifer: a story of industrial conflict in New Zealand in the 1930s, Dave Welch, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North

Exhibitions 1988-2006

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2006
‘Strike 1913: War on the Wharves’, exhibition at the Museum of Wellington City and Sea

2001—02
‘1951: lockout, strike, confrontation’, in association with New Zealand Film Archive, commemorating the 1951 waterfront lockout and displayed at venues in Wellington, Auckland, Palmerston North and Dunedin

1993
‘Te Keiti E Mahi Ai (What Katy Did): Te Wahine Te Mahi (Women and Work) 1880s—1940s’, photographic exhibition at Wellington City Art Gallery and at Porirua, Auckland and Canterbury Public Libraries

1990
‘Art and Organised Labour’, Wellington City Art Gallery (toured other centres subsequently)

1988
‘Woollen Workers’ Strike of 1899’, Petone Settlers’ Museum

Video/Film Grants and Productions 1987-2001

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2001
Gaylene Preston and John Bates: Archival videos recording the proceedings of the Lockout ’51 conference

1999
Gaylene Preston: $5,000 grant to film documentary on Trade Union Women’s Choir Choir, Choir, Pants on Fire, plus promotional CD

1998
Gaylene Preston: archival video on seminar to commemorate the life of Max Bollinger

1997
Spiral Productions: $3,000 grant for documentary film on life of Irahapeti Ramsden, Something for My Grandchildren to Hold

1992
Vanguard Films (Gerd Polhman): $2,000 grant to transfer six documentary films on New Zealand labour history onto video

1990
Shattered Dreams: video produced by Francis Wevers and Dean Parker dealing with New Zealand industrial history 1946—51 (with the help of two grants from the Short Film Fund of the New Zealand Film Commission)

1987
Paul Chalmers: $100 grant to videotape long-time union leader and activist Peter Purdue