Working lives c. 1900 : a photographic essay / Erik Olssen.
Material type: TextPublisher: Dunedin : Otago, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 167 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781877578519 :
- 9781877578519 (pbk.)
- 1877578517 (pbk.)
- Working lives circa 1900
- Working lives c. nineteen hundred
- Blue collar workers -- History -- 20th century
- Working class -- History -- 20th century
- Labor -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
- Blue collar workers -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Working class -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
- Labor -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book: Standard | Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre | Paterson Collection | HD5856.N9 O47 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 14-1309 |
"This book uses photographs to show two processes fundamental to creating a new society: the transformation of swamp into farmland then city-scape, and the transplantation of the knowledge and skill acquired in the Old World that were essential to building a new world"--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Creating a new society -- From the swamp to the flat -- Factories, shops and offices -- Crafts, jobs and professions -- A less unequal society? -- The Labour Movement and the Labour Party -- Epilogue.
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