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Revolution or spectacle, Don Aimer

Posted on December 1, 2006 by NZ Books

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

United they stood, Don Aimer

Posted on September 1, 2004 by NZ Books

Black Prince: the biography of Fintan Patrick Walsh Graeme Hunt Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 014301935X The Big Blue: Snapshots of the 1951 Waterfront Lockout ed David Grant Canterbury University Press in association with The Trade Union History Project, $29.99, ISBN 1877257281…

Tagged with: Canterbury University Press, David Grant, Don Aimer, Graeme Hunt, Issue 67, Penguin, Spring 2004, Trade Union History Project
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology

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