On March 14 1951, the relief committee of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers��� union voted to exclude women from the union���s relief depot. This article examines the decisions of the Auckland relief committee during a lock-out that lasted from January to June 1951. The men organizing relief understood the relationship between class, gender and welfare perpetuated by mainstream welfare organizations and they were determined not to replicate it. Excluding women was part of their effort to reconstruct the work of welfare as masculine work. Union relief structures are very much of their time; they are created as a result of an industrial conflict and usually dismantled when it ends. Because of their transient nature, the...
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“We Were Not Ladies” uses the 1930s dual union fight between the United Mine Workers of America and ...
From 16 October to 8 December 1950 Victorian members of the Australian Railways Union (ARU) and the ...
The oppression of women today needs to be looked at in the context of a long-term crisis of capital ...
From February to July 1951, 8,000 New Zealand watersider workers were locked-out and 7,000 miners, s...
In July 1951, 15,000 New Zealand watersiders, miners, freezing-workers and seamen returned to work ...
On 9 July 1951, the unions involved in the waterfront lock-out and the lock-out���s supporting stri...
The Women's Political Association and Peace Army responded to the Wharf Labourers' strike ...
This article explores recent strike action in two highly gendered nonprofit social services agencies...
From the 1930s until the 1950s, the Waterside Workers Union was at the centre of industrial life in ...
The domestic workers in New Zealand's hotels, hospitals and restaurants have been at the margins ...
On the occasion of the centenary of the Blackball strike of 1908, the author reviews the strike fro...
This article will offer the first historical assessment of the National Women Against Pit Closures m...
In this article, emphasis is given to the cultural or symbolic dimension of work organization and in...
Compulsory unionism in New Zealand in the past meant that women had to sign up and join their local ...
Looking back at the Grunwick strike of 1976-78, Wayne Medford explains how ideas of solidarity and c...
“We Were Not Ladies” uses the 1930s dual union fight between the United Mine Workers of America and ...
From 16 October to 8 December 1950 Victorian members of the Australian Railways Union (ARU) and the ...
The oppression of women today needs to be looked at in the context of a long-term crisis of capital ...