Rats and Revolutionaries - The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940
Author(s): James Bennett
Looks at the emerging labour movement in the two countries 1890 to 1940 when it formed almost a 'trans-Tasman world of labour', with individuals entering each other's realm through strikes, compulsorary arbitration, industrial organisation, conscription and the Depression.
Product Information
Introduction; Strikes, Depression and Trans-Tasman Organisation; Whites Only Policy; Compulsory Arbitration and Ideological Divisions; The path to Industrial Warfare; War, Conscription and Revolution; Communist Party Relations and International Connections; Australasian Patterns of Industrial Organisation; The Depression and Protest; Labour Parties, Orthodoxy and the Depression; Radicalism and Political Dissent; Reinventing Labour; Index.
General Fields
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- : Otago University Press
- : Otago University Press
- : 01 October 2004
- : 230mm X 155mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : James Bennett
- : Paperback
- : 331.80993
- : very good
- : 214
- : b/w illlus
