Story: Class

More links and websites

• Atlas of Socioeconomic Deprivation in New Zealand

  This page on the Ministry of Health’s website provides maps which show New Zealand’s socio-economic landscape.

• Economic Inequality in New Zealand: a User’s Guide

  An overview of current research on inequality by economist Brian Easton.

• Household incomes in New Zealand: Trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2016

  Report by Bryan Perry for the Ministry of Social Development on poverty levels since 1982 using data from household surveys. 

More suggestions and sources

• Boston, Jonathan and Simon Chapple. Child poverty in New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2014. 

• Caldwell, Jill and Christopher Brown. 8 tribes: the hidden classes of New Zealand. Auckland: Wicked Little Books, 2007.

• Crothers, Charles (ed.). 'Special issue on Inequality and Class in New Zealand'. New Zealand Sociology Vol. 28, No. 3 (2013).

• McAloon, Jim. No idle rich: the wealthy in Canterbury and Otago 1840–1914. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002.

• Olssen, Erik and Maureen Hickey. Class and occupation: the New Zealand reality. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005.

• Pearson, David G. Johnsonville: continuity and change in a New Zealand township. Auckland: Allen & Unwin, 1980.

• Pearson, D. G. and D. C. Thorns. Eclipse of equality: social stratification in New Zealand. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983.

• Pitt, David (ed.). Social class in New Zealand. Auckland: Longman Paul, 1977.

• Rashbrooke, Max. Inequality: a New Zealand crisis. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2013.