Bert Roth Award 2026
From a shortlist of nine amazing labour history works produced in 2025, we awarded the 2026 Bert Roth Award to: Rosemary Baird, The Middle of Nowhere:… Read More »Bert Roth Award 2026
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Campaigning in a Cost-of-Living Crisis – Then and Now
Session 2: Benefits Tony Simpson: ‘Mr Micawber’s Outcome – the origins and experience of 1930’s unemployment and welfare in New Zealand’ Sue Bradford: ‘Jobs &… Read More »Campaigning in a Cost-of-Living Crisis – Then and Now
Grant for Working-Class Women’s History
Thanks to the generosity of Julia Laite, the winner of the 2022 Bert Roth Award, we have a $500 grant available for a project that… Read More »Grant for Working-Class Women’s History
The New Zealand Northern Drivers’ Union: Trade Union Anti-Racism Work, 1937–80 by Cybèle Locke
We are very lucky that the Labour History journal and Liverpool University Press has allowed us to reproduce this article, which was short-listed for the… Read More »The New Zealand Northern Drivers’ Union: Trade Union Anti-Racism Work, 1937–80 by Cybèle Locke
‘“Come Quickly! The Bailiffs Are In!”: Resistance to Eviction During the Depression in New Zealand’ by Elinor Chisholm
The New Zealand Journal of History has kindly given permission for us to reproduce ‘“Come Quickly! The Bailiffs Are In!”: Resistance to Eviction During the… Read More »‘“Come Quickly! The Bailiffs Are In!”: Resistance to Eviction During the Depression in New Zealand’ by Elinor Chisholm
‘The Unpaid Child’ by Jon Henning
The New Zealand Journal of History of kindly allowed us to reproduce ‘The Unpaid Child’ by Jon Henning, which was shortlisted for the Bert Roth… Read More »‘The Unpaid Child’ by Jon Henning
Labour Archives
The Labour History Project does not collect or store labour-related archives. However we are happy to provide advice on who might best help with your… Read More »Labour Archives
Labour History Project Bulletin 82, September 2021
The August Bulletin includes details of the Bert Roth Award and discussions of the New Zealand history curriculum. Feature Articles Resistance to Destructuring in the… Read More »Labour History Project Bulletin 82, September 2021
Labour History Project Bulletin 81, April 2021
Features The 1980 Kinleith Strike – “Greatest Worker Victory” – Russell Campbell The end of post-war New Zealand and the 1980s -Jim McAloon Voices from… Read More »Labour History Project Bulletin 81, April 2021
Labour History Project Bulletin 80, December 2020
Feature articles Protest and politics in the Depression: Insights on the relationship of protest and politics during the Depression of 1930-35 – Malcolm McKinnon‘The Insupressible… Read More »Labour History Project Bulletin 80, December 2020