Story: Unions and employee organisations
Page 8 – External links and sources
More links and websites
Department of Labour
The Department of Labour provides support to employers and employees to create safe, fair and rewarding workplaces.
Industrial Relations Centre
The Industrial Relations Centre 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 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
Else, Anne, ed. Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand: nga ropu wahine o te motu. Wellington: Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs; Daphne Brasell Associates, 1993.
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.
