‘The View from Over the Hill’: Developing a Balanced View of Blackball ’08 from a Wider Range of Perspectives

Melanie Nolan

doi:10.26686/jnzs.v0i8.2

‘The View from Over the Hill’: Developing a Balanced View of Blackball ’08 from a Wider Range of Perspectives

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Melanie Nolan Australian National University

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https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0i8.2

Abstract

On the occasion of the centenary of the Blackball strike of 1908, the author reviews the strike from the perspectives of socialist urban labour, socio-cultural as well as the political and ideological aspects, the employers' position and the role of working-class women in New Zealand. The strike was about the rising expectations of workers who wanted something more than the industrial relations system was delivering.

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Author Biography

Melanie Nolan, Australian National University

Professor Melanie Nolan is the Director of the National Centre of Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University. Between 1993 and 2008 she taught at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of two monographs, four edited volumes and over fifty articles, chapters and encyclopaedia and historical dictionary entries in New Zealand, Australian and comparative history, in particular, about the transformation of work and workers and the politics that has engendered since industrialization.

Journal of New Zealand Studies 2009 No. 8

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2009-04-05

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No. 8 (2009): Journal of New Zealand Studies

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