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Labour History Project Bulletin 84, April 2022

    The April bulletin focuses on health and safety and contains articles by Ross Wilson on an historical overview of workplace health and safety in New Zealand, Rachel Bell on ACC and the importance of women’s farmwork during the neoliberal reforms of 1984-87, Hazel Armstrong’s account of a health and safety prosecution court case, Rebecca Macfie on the appalling death toll in the forestry industry, Catherine Delahunty on the work of Sawmill Workers Against Poisons (SWAP), an anonymous article on early childhood educators and the their whanau during the Covid 19 pandemic, Ross Teppet’s interview with renowned occupational health physician Bill Glass, Denise Roche on intimacy guidelines in the performing arts sector.  There are also reviews of Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson’s book The Shadow of the Mine, Coal and the end of Industrial Britain, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman’s After Hours Trading & The Flying Squad, and Performer – a memoir by Paul Maunder, and obituaries for Jimmy O’Dea and Stuart Macintyre.