Recommended Reading

 

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


Paul Corliss, Words at Work: An annotated bibliography of New Zealand trade union literature, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2006.


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