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A corroded utopia, Don Aimer
Unions in Common Cause: The New Zealand Federation of Labour 1937-88 Peter Franks and Melanie Nolan (eds) Steele Roberts, $39.99, ISBN 9781877577338 Reconstructing New Zealand’s Labour Law: Consensus or Divergence Gordon Anderson Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736574 …
Tagged with: Don Aimer, Gordon Anderson, Issue 98, Melanie Nolan, Peter Franks, Steele Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2012
Posted in Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Politics & Law, Review
Revolution or spectacle, Don Aimer
Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand Melanie Nolan (ed) Canterbury University Press in association with the Trade Union History Project, $34.95, ISBN 1877257400 The track record of revolutions is dismal. Failure, betrayal and despair almost assuredly await you.…
Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, Don Aimer, Issue 76, Melanie Nolan, Summer 2006, Trade Union History Project
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Still on the margins, Anne Else
Suffrage and Beyond ‑ International Feminist Perspectives Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan (eds) Auckland University Press, $39.95 The movement for women’s suffrage can be said to have begun at the World Anti‑Slavery Convention held in London in 1840, where American…
Tagged with: Anne Else, Auckland University Press, Caroline Daley, Issue 16, Melanie Nolan, Summer 1994
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Gender, History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Waves and ripples, Melanie Nolan
The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand Keith Sinclair (ed), Oxford University Press, 1990, $59.95 The People and The Land. Te Tangata Me Te Whenua Judith Bassett, Judith Binney, Erik Olssen Allen and Unwin/ Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1990, $59.95…
Tagged with: Allen & Unwin, Autumn 1991, Erik Olssen, Issue 1, Judith Bassett, Judith Binney, Keith Sinclair, Melanie Nolan, Oxford University Press, Port Nicholson Press
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review