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 SeminarWelcome and context setting Panel One: John Ryall, Robert Reid and Don Franks – Strikes in the Wellington motor assembly industry panel Panel Two: Graeme Clarke, Rod Meharry and Roger Middlemass – Trades Council strikes, Kinleith pulp and paper mill strike 1980, strikes in the meat industry Panel Three: Ann Waddell and Martha Coleman –… 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.