Research Catalog

Title

Building the new world : work, politics and society in Caversham 1880s-1920s / by Erik Olssen.

Author

Olssen, Erik.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

x, 297 p. : ill., maps, plans, ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

In this impressive sequence of essays leading New Zealand historian Erik Olssen builds on his earlier work on labour and social and political history. Drawing on the Caversham data base at the University of Otago, he aims to investigate here the ways in which locality, labour process, politics, culture and society shape each other. After an exploration of the theoretical issues and a sketch of the industrial-residential suburb of Caversham in Dunedin at the turn of the century, Olssen analyses the labour process in various skilled trades, the gendering of skill and work, the construction and development of a socialist political movement and an egalitarian society. Topics addressed include masters and journeymen, skilled women workers, carpenters, the skilled men of the metal trades in the Hillside workshops, the construction of a political culture based on class and the shifting meanings of that word.

Subject

• Skilled labor > New Zealand > Dunedin > History
• Labor > New Zealand > Dunedin > History
• Suburbs > New Zealand > Dunedin > History
• Social classes > New Zealand > Dunedin > History
• Labor unions > New Zealand > Dunedin > History
• Travail > Nouvelle-Zélande > Dunedin > Histoire
• Banlieues > Nouvelle-Zélande > Dunedin > Histoire
• Classes sociales > Nouvelle-Zélande > Dunedin > Histoire
• Syndicats > Nouvelle-Zélande > Dunedin > Histoire
• Labor
• Labor unions
• Politics and government
• Skilled labor
• Social classes
• Social conditions
• Suburbs
• Caversham (Dunedin, N.Z.) > History
• Caversham (Dunedin, N.Z.) > Social conditions
• New Zealand > Politics and government
• Nouvelle-Zélande > Politique et gouvernement
• New Zealand
• New Zealand > Caversham (Dunedin)
• New Zealand > Dunedin

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-291) and index.

Contents

From road board to suburb -- The handicrafts : masters and journeymen -- Skilled women workers -- The carpenters -- The hillside workshops and the metal trades -- From apathy to politics : masters and journeymen mobilise -- From liberalism and socialism, 1893-1922.

ISBN

• 1869401069 (pbk.)
• 9781869401061 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 95184956
• ZBWT00627469

OCLC

• ocm34517324
• 34517324
• SCSB-2086479

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library