The Labour History Project organises meetings, seminars, discussions, talks, and walks. This page contains information about upcoming events and videos, transcripts and posters from previous events.
- All Out! 1970s/1980s Strike SeminarA seminar to mark and memorise resistance: 15 November 2025, 1-5pm. Pipitea Campus, 33 Bunny St Wellington. Hundreds of thousands of people in the 1970s and 1980s in Aotearoa New Zealand participated in strikes. Yet these strikes have mostly been overlooked. Many went on strike so they could keep up with the rising cost of… Read More »All Out! 1970s/1980s Strike Seminar
- Campaigning in a Cost-of-Living Crisis – Then and NowSession 2: Benefits Tony Simpson: ‘Mr Micawber’s Outcome – the origins and experience of 1930’s unemployment and welfare in New Zealand’ Sue Bradford: ‘Jobs & a living wage for all: Unemployed & beneficiary campaigning in the 90s’ Brooke Stanley Pao: ‘Remembering our worth with Liveable Incomes for all’ Session 4: Universal Services Esther Willing:… Read More »Campaigning in a Cost-of-Living Crisis – Then and Now
- From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the 1980sThe LHP Symposium, ‘From Kinleith to the dole queue: workers’ struggles of the 1980s’ was held on 21 February 2021.