- Employment
- Employer/ employee relations
- Gender issues & trends
- Historical issues & trends
- Unemployment
Labour, Employment & Work
Employment
Creagh, H. 1986 The Employment Effects of Regional Development Policy in New Zealand: An example of the impact of a capital subsidy on the firm's demand for labour. Unpublished MA Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Auckland.
Fairweather, J. 1988 Employment and unemployment in rural Southland. AERU Research Report No. 196, Lincoln College.
Houghton, R.M., Caskey, M. Gold, U. & Wilson, A. 1986 Otautau Business and Employment Survey. A report to the Southland and Wallace County Councils. Business Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin.
Houghton, R.M. & Wilson, A.G. & Caskey, M.E. 1987 Recent Changes in Business and Employment in Tapanui, West Otago. Business Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin.
Le Heron, R.B. 1989 Going international with education: Restructuring, regional alliancesand regional labour market in the Wairarapa. Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Geography Conference, pp 24-28.
Morrison, P.S. 1984 Patterns of change in full-time employment in New Zealand, 1971-1983: Regional and sectoral trends. Consulting Report Series (C2), Department of Geography, Victoria University, Wellington.
Warren, J., Williamson, Elizabeth & Pennell, Moria 1988 Rural Employment Report: The Hurunui and Akaroa Districts: A research report. Canterbury Women's Employment Trust, Christchurch, 45pp.
Employer/ employee relations
Dodds, A. (forthcoming) An Investigation of the Impact of Managerial Employee Relations Strategies on Employee Attitudes: A case study of the Fortex Group's Silverstream meat processing plant. Master of Commerce Thesis, Department of Management, University of Otago.
Martin, J. 1984 Rural and industrial labour and the State in New Zealand. In C. Wilkes & I. Shirley (eds) In the Public Interest, Benton Ross, Auckland.
Gender issues & trends
Anning, J. 1990 Women in the Warkworth Township Labour Force. Unpublished MA Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Auckland.
Botica, K.J. 1993 Women in Land and Resource Based Industries: Celebrating women's suffrage. Lincoln University, Canterbury. ISBN 0864760604
Herring, S. 1993 "From Lamb to Raging Bull" : Women in the Mataura Freezing Works, 1934-1982. Unpublished Research Essay, Department of History, University of Otago.
Lovelock, K. 1993 Reddish Eddying Water: Work, Gender and class consciousness in a working class town. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Otago.
Rivers, M.J. 1992 The contribution of women to the rural economy. Stage 1 scoping report. MAF Policy Technical Paper 92/4, MAF Policy, Wellington. ISBN 0477085652 ISSN 11714662
Rivers, M.J. (forthcoming) The contribution of women to the rural economy. Stage 2. MAF Policy Technical Paper, MAF Policy, Wellington.
Historical issues & trends
Angove, N. 1990 The New Zealand Farm Workers Association: Its rise and fall 1974-1987. Unpublished MA Thesis, Department of History, Massey University.
Angove, N. 1988 Worker Indiscipline in the Freezing Industry: A Patea case study. BA (Hons) research, Department of History, Massey University.
Fairburn, M. 1995 Almost Out of Heart and Hope: The puzzle of a colonial labourer's diary. Auckland University Press, Auckland.
Eldred-Grigg, S. 1990 New Zealand Working People, 1890-1990. Dunmore Press in association with Trade Union History Project, 251pp. ISBN 0864691246
Martin, J.E. 1990 The Forgotten Worker: The rural wage earner in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand. Bridget Wilson, Wellington.
Martin, J. 1983 Whither the rural working class in nineteenth century New Zealand? The New Zealand Journal of History, 17(1): 21-42.
Unemployment
Connolly, M. 1990 The Impact of Unemployment on Rural Families in the Wairarapa: An exploratory study. Unpublished MA Thesis, Department of Applied Social Sciences; Recreation and Leisure Studies, Victoria University.
Edwards, C. 1991 Employment Search Behaviour in a Small New Zealand Town: A study of informal social networks. BCom(Hons) Dissertation, Department of Management, University of Otago.
Scott, G.A.J. 1995 Place Struggles: A critical analysis of changing patterns of work, unemployment, and local development in New Zealand and the West Coast of the South Island. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Canterbury.
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Sector Performance Policy
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Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
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Phone: +64 4 894 0675
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