Workers and Unions
A collection of items about trade unionism and industrial cooperatives in Christchurch. A highlight is the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council’s Industrial Exhibition and Art Union catalogue from 1911.
Works included in this section:
- The formation and development of trades unionism in Canterbury (1950)
- Unemployment: can the problem be solved?
- Sixty years of sacrifice and struggle: a brief chronicle of trade union organisation in the Christchurch clothing industry (1939)
- After fifty years: being a passing record of early exploitation of women and later achievement by trade unionism in the Christchurch clothing trade (1940)
- The tailoresses' birthday: twenty-one years' of trade unionism (1911)
- Co-operation, its objects, its methods, its results (1897)
- Rules of the Canterbury Industrial Co-operative Society, Limited. New Zealand's industries and private profits : how wages, conditions, importation, quality and prices may be regulated by active state competition (1918)
- Canterbury Trades and Labour Council's Industrial Exhibition and Art Union (1911)
- Report of the Eighth N.Z. Painters and Decorators Industrial Union of Workers Annual conference, held in Christchurch (1919)
- New Zealand's industries and private profits : how wages, conditions, importation, quality and prices may be regulated by active state competition (1910)
For further resources see the Society section on the Ōtautahi - Christchurch Subject Guide.
The University of Canterbury Library's art and archive database Kā Kohika highlights some of the University's vast holdings on workers and union history.