The Red and the Gold: An Informal Account of the Waihi Strike, 1912 by Stanley Roche
$24.00
The Red and the Gold: An Informal Account of the Waihi Strike, 1912 by Stanley Roche.
A detailed illustrated account of the famous 1912 Waihi miners’ strike, one of the defining episodes in New Zealand labour history. Roche reconstructs the dispute, the town, the personalities and the increasingly bitter confrontation that culminated in violence and the death of striker Frederick Evans.
Author: Stanley Roche
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Year: 1982
Edition: First edition / first published 1982
Format: Softcover
Pages: 176
ISBN: 0195580796
Condition: Good used condition overall. Covers show light handling and shelf wear, with an old bookseller price sticker remaining on the front cover. Interior pages are generally clean with some light age-related spotting visible. Please inspect the photographs for condition details.
A useful and increasingly collectable New Zealand history title, especially relevant to collectors of labour history, mining history, Waihi and the wider history of industrial relations in New Zealand.
Collections: ALL BOOKS, ALL PRODUCTS, NON-FICTION BOOKS, NZ BOOKS, NZ HISTORY, NZ NON FICTION
Type: NZ NON FICTION
Category: B005, BOOKS, LABOUR HISTORY, MINING HISTORY, NEW ZEALAND HISTORY, NZ HISTORY, NZ NON FICTION, STANLEY ROCHE, TRADE UNION HISTORY, WAIHI, WAIHI STRIKE
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