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Book Review: Working-class militancy disrupted the New Zealand Company’s model settlement.

Book Review: Working-class militancy disrupted the New Zealand Company’s model settlement.

Tooth and Veil: The Life and Times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse, Massey University Press , published by Massey University Press. The award was announced at the Labour History Project AGM on Tuesday 20 July. Named for the late historian Herbert Roth, the award is presented annually to the work published in the previous calendar year that best depicts the history of work and resistance in New Zealand. The award was judged this year by Cybèle Locke, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Grace Millar, and Ross Webb ‘On 29 March 1974, nurses from all over the country marched on parliament and won a substan...

‘Labour’, a centennial history of the Labour Party Socialist and workers’ parties around the world this weekend celebrate the international day of labour, or May Day. But not in New Zealand and a handful of other countries, which separately mark the contribution of the labour movement. New Zealand’s Labour Day was set on the fourth Monday of October in 1890, one year after the Marxist International Socialist Congress in Paris, or Second International, declared the first May Day. Common to both were demands for an eight-hour day, a call that had been answered for some New...

‘Labour’, a centennial history of the Labour Party Socialist and workers’ parties around the world this weekend celebrate the international day of labour, or May Day. But not in New Zealand and a handful of other countries, which separately mark the contribution of the labour movement. New Zealand’s Labour Day was set on the fourth Monday of October in 1890, one year after the Marxist International Socialist Congress in Paris, or Second International, declared the first May Day. Common to both were demands for an eight-hour day, a call that had been answered for some New...