Illustrated with paintings and photographs, it tells the story of two communities, Maori and Pakeha, over the years 1820-1920. While Maori and Pakeha shared many activities and pleasures - from community brass bands to the new trade union movement, from a day at the races to a yarn in the shearing shed - the two stories here show that they saw their mutual history through very different eyes. The People and the Land/Te Tangata me Te Whenua reveals conflicting understandings of the past, but makes possible too the bridging of such differences through knowledge. Together, text and images (many in full colour) create a stunning new presentation of New Zealand history. First published in 1990, The People and the Land/Te Tangata me Te Whenua is now reprinted for both general readers and students of New Zealand history.

The People and the Land = Te Tangata Me Te Whenua: An Illustrated History of New Zealand 1820-1920

History

Binney, Judith

Olssen, Erik

Bassett, Judith

Australia & Oceania

Paul & Co Pub Consortium

The "Red" Federation of Labour began in the coal mines of the West Coast of New Zealand and grew to play a key role in the transformation of the Labour movement. This history of the Federation thoroughly examines the unionization of unskilled workers, the revolutionary leaders, and the origins of militancy in the Labour movement. Olssen also looks at the daily lives of workers in key industries and trades and at the conditions of life in the cities.

The Red Feds: Revolutionary Industrial Unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908-1914

Business & Money

Economics

Oxford University Press

John A. Lee

University of Otago Press

During the 19th century, men in leading industrialized societies came to be characterized by their occupations-miner, servant, farmer, doctor. The first substantial wave of British immigrants into New Zealand brought this way of thinking and subsequent waves strengthened it. By the early 1900s, it was a unionized society categorized by the breadwinner's wage, which in turn largely determined the chances his wife and children would be given in life. The New Zealand census reflected this attitude by introducing an occupational census, largely ignoring many features of the colonial workforce and following its British counterpart. Class and Occupation is the first systematic attempt to identify New Zealand's actual occupational structure from 1893 to 1938, using the information gathered by the census. Six essays consider how best to construct an occupational structure for both the whole country  and for regions/localities within it. Identification of changes in occupational structure occurring across the period casts light on social change in New Zealand and, significantly, women's participation in the paid non-agricultural workforce.

Class And Occupation: The New Zealand Reality (The Otago History Series)

Hickey, Maureen

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Otago Univ Pr

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