Hard-edged social realism, Vincent O’Sullivan

Posted on October 1, 1991 by NZ Books

The Shining City Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Penguin, Auckland, 1991, $24.95 Once upon a time there was the working class. It lived in wretched houses, did boring jobs, spoke with a consistently vulgar vitality, and as a sort of class badge, said…

Tagged with: Issue 3, Penguin, Spring 1991, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Fiction, Literature, 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

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