At first glance, the discussion at the Unity conference in January 1913 seems to be about an uninteresting question of organisational forms. The leaders of the United Labor Party (ULP) […]
Harry Holland and the early labour movement in Australia and New Zealand, Part 4. For earlier parts, click on links for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 As depression conditions deepened and […]
Harry Holland and the labour movement in Australasia Part 1 In the year 1890, a mass strike erupted that eventually involved sixty thousand waterside workers, seafarers, miners, shearers and rail workers […]
The newborn working class in New Zealand took its first breath in the upsurge of union organising and the 1890 maritime strike, which was both the culmination of that upsurge […]
In the birthplace of industrial capitalism, the young proletariat went through a protracted process of formation into a class. In the first decades the individual wage-laborers were assembled by the […]
Whenever I visit Australia, it is the differences between that country and New Zealand that I notice first – the vegetation dominated by a single genus of trees – the […]
This week I travel to Canberra, Australia, to research the early life of Harry Holland. Harry Holland was a leading figure in the labour movement in both Australia and New […]
A worker at large 