Rats and Revolutionaries - The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940

Author(s): James Bennett

NZ Non-fiction

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.

General Information

  • : 9781877276491
  • : Otago University Press
  • : Otago University Press
  • : 01 October 2004
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : James Bennett
  • : Paperback
  • : 214
  • : b/w illlus

More About The Product

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.