Story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce

More links and websites

• Colonisation and the involution of the Māori economy

  This conference paper by Hazel Petrie (PDF, 96 KB) discusses the role that trade played in early Māori–Pākehā interaction.

• Trends in Māori labour market outcomes 1986–2003

  This Department of Labour (Now Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment) report outlines the changing nature of Māori labour outcomes between 1986 and 2003.

More suggestions and sources

• Belich, James. Making peoples: a history of the New Zealanders: from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.
• Butterworth, G. V. End of an era: the Departments of Maori Affairs, 1840–1989. Wellington: GP Books, 1989.
• Petrie, Hazel. Chiefs of industry: Māori tribal enterprise in early colonial New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006.