The 1913 Great Strike

This web feature was written by Peter Clayworth and produced by the NZHistory team and Labour History Project.

Links

• The 1912 and 1913 strikes (Te Ara)
• Labour History Project
• 1913 Strike Flickr page
• The Great Strike of 1913 - podcast of talk given by Peter Clayworth on 2 October 2013

Books

• Richard Hill, The iron hand in the velvet glove: the modernisation of New Zealand policing, 1886-1917, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1995
• Melanie Nolan (ed.), Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, Canterbury University Press with the Trade Union History Project, Christchurch, 2005
• Erik Olssen, The Red Feds: revolutionary industrial unionism and the New Zealand Federation of Labour, 1908-1913, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1988
• Len Richardson, Coal, class and community: the United Mine Workers of New Zealand 1880-1960, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1995
• Bert Roth and Jenny Hammond, Toil and trouble: the struggle for a better life in New Zealand, Methuen New Zealand, Auckland, 1981