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Shear hard work : a history of New Zealand shearing / Hazel Riseborough.
- Title
- Shear hard work : a history of New Zealand shearing / Hazel Riseborough.
- Author
- Riseborough, Hazel.
- Publication
- Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HD8039.S472 N457 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 350 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- Shear Hard Work tells the story of shearers and brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. From the 1860s, when shearers were first identified as the 'very dregs of the colonial democracy', to the present day, when Kiwi shearers set world records and shear sheep around the globe, shearers have played a key role in New Zealand life. A historian and qualified wool classer, Riseborough has travelled from merino farms in Alexandra to the women's world record attempt at Waikaretu, from "the first Maori in Milton" to Joe Paewai's Dannevirke shearing family, to tell this great New Zealand story.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-340) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781869404536
- 186940453X
- LCCN
- ^^2010444385
- OCLC
- 468980379
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library