Rats And Revolutionaries The Labour Movement In Australia And New Zealand 1890 1940

Author: James Bennett

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  • : 39.95 NZD
  • : 9781877276491
  • : Otago University Press
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  • : 01 October 2004
  • : 230mm X 155mm
  • : New Zealand
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9781877276491

Description

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.

Table of contents

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.

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