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Ongoing negotiations, Alison Gray

Posted on March 1, 2011 by NZ Books

Honouring the Contract John E Martin Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736345 In his new book, John Martin takes a step back in his exploration of the genesis and nature of the role of government in New Zealand labour…

Tagged with: Alison Gray, Autumn 2011, Issue 93, John E Martin, Victoria University Press
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

Civilisation safe, Hilary Stace

Posted on September 1, 2009 by NZ Books

Parliament’s Library: 150 Years John E Martin Steele Roberts, $59.99, ISBN 9781877448430 Freedom to Read: A Centennial History of Dunedin Public Library Mary Ronnie Dunedin Public Libraries and the Dunedin Public Library Association $40.00, ISBN 9780473134624 In these uncertain times…

Tagged with: Dunedin Public Libraries, Dunedin Public Library Association, Hilary Stace, Issue 87, John E Martin, Mary Ronnie, Spring 2009, Steele Roberts
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review

The House that we built, Colin James

Posted on June 1, 2004 by NZ Books

The House: New Zealand’s House of Representatives 1854-2004 John E Martin Dunmore Press, $59.95, ISBN 0864694636 Parliament is a brutal place. Only the idealistic, the ideological, the hard-nosed and the ruthless gather there. No person is inviolate, no secret safe,…

Tagged with: Colin James, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 66, John E Martin, Winter 2004
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

The tides of labour, Len Richardson

Posted on June 8, 1997 by NZ Books

Holding the Balance: A History of New Zealand’s Department of Labour 1891-1995 John E Martin Canturbury University Press, $49.95 limp, $69.95 cased, ISBN 0 908812 61 2 John Martin’s Holding the Balance is, in his own words, “a reassertion of…

Tagged with: Canturbury University Press, Issue 28, John E Martin, Len Richardson, Summer 1997
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review

What about the workers? A historical view, John Roberts

Posted on April 1, 1991 by NZ Books

The Forgotten Worker: The Rural Wage Worker in Nineteenth Century New Zealand John E Martin, Allen and Unwin/Trade Union History Project, Wellington, 1990, $35.95 New Zealand Working People 1890-1990 Stevan Eldred-Grigg Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1990, $34.95 Nuclear Free:…

Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, David Lange, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Geoffrey Palmer, Issue 1, John E Martin, John McIndoe, John Roberts, Penguin Books, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Trade Union History Project
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology