Story: Unions and employee organisations

More links and websites

• Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work

  The Centre for Labour, Employment, and Work at Victoria University, Wellington, researches all areas of industrial and employment relations.

• Labour History Project

  The Trade Union History Project, formed in 1987, records and celebrates the history of working people, working life and trade unions in New Zealand.

• New Zealand at Work

  The Department of Business, Innovation, and Employment provides support to employers and employees to create safe, fair and rewarding workplaces.

• New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

  The CTU is the central organisation for trade unions in New Zealand, representing over 350,000 union members in more than 40 affiliated unions.

More suggestions and sources

• Nolan, Melanie. 'Employment organisations.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te mot, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.

• Olssen, Erik. Building the new world: work, politics and society in Caversham, 1880s–1920s. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995

• Olssen, Erik. The red feds: revolutionary industrial unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908–14. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1988.

• Roth, Bert, and Janny Hammond. Toil and trouble: the struggle for a better life in New Zealand. Auckland: Methuen New Zealand, 1981.

• Roth, H. Trade unions in New Zealand, past and present. Wellington: Reed Education, 1973.

• Salmond, J. D. New Zealand labour’s pioneering days: the history of the labour movement in N.Z. from 1840 to 1894. Auckland: Forward, 1950.