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Author : David Francis Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : CORNELL:31924003761875
Author : Mark Derby
Publisher : Craig Potton Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 1877517178
From 1960 until his sudden death in office in 1976, Dan Long was the most visible face of the Public Service Association (PSA), New Zealand's largest union. In his dark suit, narrow tie and plastic-framed spectacles, Long seemed the epitome of the public servants he represented. In fact, as this lively biography makes clear, his background and political attitudes made him a very unusual leader of this traditionally conservative organisation. The son of working-class migrants from Ireland, Long was raised a staunch Catholic in the remote Wairarapa railway community of Cross Creek. He and his two brothers were conscientious objectors during WW2, and were held in a series of detention camps. Long then worked as a lawyer in the Ministry of Works, and in 1960 was selected as the PSA's general secretary (its most senior paid official) in part because of his active support for equal pay for women in the public service. He led the PSA during its transformation from a gentlemanly professional body into a large, well resourced and highly effective trade union representing every level of public employee from senior departmental managers to night cleaners.Long was also directly instrumental in broadening the range of PSA activities beyond immediate issues of pay and working conditions into the much wider fields of human rights, internationalism and the social revolution of the late 1960s and 70s. A warm-hearted and gentle family man, Long could also be a formidable negotiator, with a trained lawyer's grasp of detail. Although a lifelong Catholic and non-aligned leftist of pacifist principles, he nevertheless came to the attention of state security services. This book draws upon their unpublished files to show how public servants in this period suffered a covert purging because of their entirely legal political activities.
Author : Myron J. Roomkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195364613
This collection of essays examines the role of managers as employees in nine industrialized countries--Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, West Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, and Japan. Focusing on middle managers, including professionals, the contributors document the differences and similarities that exist in the employment relationships of managers in these countries, trace the forces that shape these relationships, and discuss the ways that these relationships have been affected by developments in the business environment over the last two decades. The distinguished contributors include Greg Bamber, Ed Snape, Russell D. Lansbury, Annabelle Quince, David F. Smith, Eberhard Witte, Karl-Olof Faxén, Håkan Lundgren, Jacques Rojot, Claudio Pellegreni, and Vladimir Pucik.
Author : R. G. Crocombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN : 0589007548
Author : Michael Neary,Mike Neary
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0720123402
Despite the centrality of labour in Marx's writing, a theory of human subjectivity remains undeveloped in communist science. Using recent developments in the field, this text develops a theory of human sociability through the labour theory value.
Author : George Sayers Bain
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4270193
Study of trends in the composition of trade union membership in the UK, with particular reference to the increasing number of nonmanual workers - includes a historical review of white-collar unionism in the manufacturing industry, and covers social status characteristics in the occupational structure, management attitudes, government policies, etc. References and statistical tables.
Author : James C. Docherty,Sjaak van der Velden
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780810879881
Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position. It can be studied from many different points of view—historical, economic, sociological, or legal—but it is fundamentally about the struggle for human rights and social justice. As a rule, organized labor has tried to make the world a fairer place. Even though it has only ever covered a minority of employees in most countries, its effects on their political, economic, and social systems have been generally positive. History shows that when organized labor is repressed, the whole society suffers and is made less just. The Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor looks at the history of organized labor to see where it came from and where it has been. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on most countries, international as well as national labor organizations, major labor unions, leaders, and other aspects of organized labor such as changes in the composition of its membership. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about organized labor.
Author : Steven Loveridge,Richard S. Hill
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776710959
In 1900, a handful of New Zealand police detectives watched out for spies, seditionists and others who might pose a threat to state and society. The Police Force remained the primary instrument of such human intelligence in New Zealand until 1956 when, a decade into the Cold War, a dedicated Security Service was created. Over the same period, New Zealand' s role within signals intelligence networks evolved from the Imperial Wireless Chain to the UKUSA intelligence alliance (now known as Five Eyes).The first of two volumes chronicling the history of state surveillance in New Zealand, Secret History opens up the &‘ secret world' of security intelligence through to 1956. It is the story of the surveillers who &– in times of war and peace, turmoil and tranquillity &– monitored and analysed perceived threats to national interests. It is also the story of the surveilled: those whose association with organisations and movements led to their public and private lives being documented in secret files.Secret History explores a hidden and intriguing dimension of New Zealand history, one which sits uneasily with cherished national notions of an exceptionally fair and open society.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : UIUC:30112104403883
Author : J. C. Docherty
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0810849119
Thoroughly updated, this essential reference source introduces scholars to the study of organized labor on the international as well as national level. Contains 400 entries describing the labor movements in countries around the world, and the important people, organizations, ideas, and political parties involved in organized labor. Includes a summary list of past and present international labor leaders, lists of global union federations and the affiliated organizations of major national labor federations, and analytical lists of the membership of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Author : David Grant
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781869793906
A major biography of Ken Douglas, the most powerful union leader in modern New Zealand history. Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he rose through the ranks, got deeper into left-wing ideology and activity with his membership of the Socialist Unity Party, and ultimately became head of the FOL, and the most powerful unionist in the land. Depending on your politics, he was one of the most respected or the most hated men in the country; ironic then that in later years he was appointed to some of the country's most important boards. In this powerful biography, David Grant -- who had unprecedented access to Douglas -- explores the facets of this remarkable man, who was there during the union movement's most powerful days and watched its emasculation. It is a unique portrait of a unique New Zealander, whose life has been this country's times.
Author : Sarah Gaitanos
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776563371
Shirley Smith was one of the most remarkable New Zealanders of the 20th century, a woman whose lifelong commitment to social justice, legal reform, gender equality and community service left a profound legacy. She was born in Wellington in 1916. While her childhood was clouded by loss &– her mother died when she was three months old and her beloved father, lawyer and later Supreme Court Judge David Smith, served overseas during the war &– she had a privileged upbringing. She studied classics at Oxford University, where she threw herself into social, cultural and political activities. Despite contracting TB and spending months in a Swiss clinic, she graduated with a good Second and an intellectual and moral education that would guide her through the rest of her life. She returned to New Zealand when war broke out, and taught classics at Victoria and Auckland University Colleges, before marrying eminent economist and public servant Dr W.B. Sutch in 1944, and giving birth to a daughter in 1945. She kept her surname &– unusual at the time &– and poured her energy into issues of human rights and social causes. She qualified as a lawyer at the age of 40, and in her career of 40 years broke down many barriers, her relationship with the Mongrel Mob epitomising her role as a champion of the marginalised and vulnerable. In 1974, Bill Sutch was arrested and charged with espionage. After a sensational trial he was acquitted by a jury, but the question of his guilt has never been settled in the court of public opinion. Shirley had reached her own political turning point in 1956, with Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin and the Hungarian crisis, but she remained loyal to her husband, and the ongoing controversy weighed on her later years. Shirley Smith: An Examined Life tells the story of a remarkably warm and generous woman, one with a rare gift for frankness, an implacable sense of principle, and a personality of complexity and formidable energy. Her life was shaped by some of th
Author : Bruce Western
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691214573
In the United States, less than one worker in five is currently in a labor union, while in Sweden, virtually the entire workforce is unionized. Despite compelling evidence for their positive effects, even the strongest European unions are now in retreat as some policymakers herald the U.S. model of market deregulation. These differences in union power significantly affect workers' living standards and the fortunes of national economies. What explains the enormous variation in unionization and why has the last decade been so hostile to organized labor? Bruce Western tackles these questions in an analysis of labor union organization in eighteen capitalist democracies from 1950 to 1990. Combining insights from sociology and economics in a novel way, Western views unions as the joint product of market forces and political and economic institutions. The author argues that three institutional conditions are essential for union growth: strong working-class political parties, centralized collective bargaining, and union-run unemployment insurance. These conditions shaped the impact of market currents and explain variations across industries, across countries, and over time for the four decades since 1950. Between Class and Market traces the story of the postwar labor movements supported by a blend of historical investigation and sophisticated statistical analysis in an innovative framework for comparative research. Western tightly integrates institutional explanation and comparative method in a way that balances comparative generality with the unique historical experiences of specific cases.
Author : Hans Renders,David Veltman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004434974
Internationally acclaimed biographies are mostly written by Anglophone biographers. How does biography function as a public genre in the rest of the world? Different Lives offers a global perspective on the biographical tradition by seventeen scholars of fifteen different countries.
Author : Janine Hayward,Richard Shaw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442274396
Diverse elements have created New Zealand’s distinctive political and social culture. First is New Zealand’s journey as a colony, and the various impacts this had on settler and Maori society. The second theme is the quest for what one prominent historian has labelled ‘national obsessions’ – equality and security, both individual and collective. The third, and more recent, theme is New Zealand’s emergence as a nation with a unique identity. New Zealand’s small geographic size and relative isolation from other societies, the dominant influence of British culture, the resurgence of Maori language and culture, the endemic instability of an economy based on a narrow range of pastoral products, and the dominance of the state in the lives of its people, all help to explain much of the present-day New Zealand psyche. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of New Zealand contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New Zealand.