Featuring a new look and a new Editor, Paul Maunder, this issue of the LHP Bulletin moved to a two-column…
Bert Roth Award for Labour History 2018
The Labour History Project awards the Bert Roth Award for labour history work – an event, a publication, a film,…
Call for papers – 2018 theme: Pay equity and equal employment opportunity
The themed edition of the November 2018 Bulletin of the LHP – Pay Equity and Equal Employment Opportunity – will…
Insecure Work in New Zealand
There is a growing concern in New Zealand and internationally about the breakdown of ‘standard’ employment relationships, usually defined as…
Chair’s Report 2018 AGM
It has been a privilege to work with an incredibly hard-working, talented and creative (not to mention fun!) Committee of…
Therese O’Connell: 2017 Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture
The Labour History Project regularly organises the Rona Bailey Memorial Lecture, a biennial public lecture looking at labour history in New Zealand,…
New website
Kia ora koutou, nau mai! Welcome to the new website of the Labour History Project. We’re still adding things here,…
Class War in the Old West
Peter Clayworth, who is writing a biography of New Zealand trade unionist Pat Hickey, tracks some of Hickey’s background through…
Mark Briggs: flax worker, trade unionist, Red Fed, auctioneer, politician, conscientious objector, humanitarian, all round good bloke
David Grant assesses the place Mark Briggs holds in our country’s history of radical resistance to war. In 2005 painter…
The 1920 Chelsea sugar workers’ strike
Dairying, horticulture, gum digging, ship maintenance and building, and naval defence were the main activities for those living and working…