Erik Olssen

Biographic Data

ID557715
NAMEErik Olssen
GIVEN NAMESErik
FAMILY NAMEOlssen
SIGNATUREOLSSEN E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Otago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Settler-Indigenous relations and exchanges in Australasia

    Erik OlssenARTICLEHistory Australia2017

  • Problematising New Zealand’s imperial past

    Erik OlssenARTICLEHistory Australia2017

  • Class, Gender and the Vote

    Open AccessRaymond Markey, Miles Fairburn et al.ARTICLELabour History2008

    Contents: Introduction 1 Stability and Egalitarianism: New Zealand 1911-1951 2 Residential Segregation and the Interwar Christchurch Experience 3 Church, Occupation and Class in Southern Dunedin, 1890-1940 4 'For Better or Worse': Marriage Patterns in Dunedin's Southern Suburbs, 1881-1938 5 Apprenticeship or Proletariat? Social Mobility in Rural Nineteenth Century Canterbury 6 'Educating the Elite?: Otago Boys' High School Fathers and Sons, 1863-…

  • Class Formation and Political Change

    Open AccessErik Olssen, B ScatesARTICLELabour History2008

    The retreat from aggregate representations of class has opened the way for a reassessment of its role in both Australia and New Zealand's history. This article focuses on two recent New Zealand research projects to review our traditional interpretations of class-based coalitions, interpretations that have often been deeply shaped by the Australian and British scholarship.1 The first and oldest of these projects has related political change nation…

  • Urban society and the opportunity structure in New Zealand, 1902–22

    Erik Olssen, Tom Brooking et al.ARTICLESocial History1999Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Social Mobility and Class Formation

    Open AccessErik Olssen, Hamish JamesARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1999Cited by: 2References: 1

    This paper explores the relationship between social mobility and class formation in a working-class industrial suburb. By establishing the degree of class closure in three periods we can identify the relationship between the country's political history, dominated by the rise of a left-wing Labour Party, and the changing levels of closure. Labour established itself during a period of low mobility then stalled when mobility increased sharply in the…

  • At the Coalface

    Open AccessErik Olssen, Fred Moore et al.ARTICLELabour History1999

  • Revolutionary Industrial Unionism

    Open AccessErik Olssen, Verity BurgmannARTICLELabour History1996

  • The Power of Shop Culture

    Open AccessErik Olssen, Jeremy BrecherARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1992Cited by: 1References: 5

    This paper investigates the history of the labour process in New Zealand's state-owned railway workshops and questions the idea that large-scale industry inevitably destroyed whatever agency skilled workers had enjoyed. It also shows that relations of production vary with the political and cultural contexts. Craft control of the labour process survived in New Zealand's state-owned railway workshops and the union played only a minor role. Jop cont…

  • Revolutionary Syndicalism

    Open AccessErik Olssen, M Van Der Linden et al.ARTICLELabour History1991

  • The Red Feds

    Open AccessRobin Gollan, Erik OlssenARTICLELabour History1989

  • The case of the socialist party that failed, or further reflections on an American dream

    Erik OlssenARTICLELabor History1988References: 14

  • A history of Otago

    Open AccessErik OlssenBOOKA history of Otago1984

  • The Progressive Group in Congress, 1922‐1929

    Open AccessErik OlssenARTICLEHistorian1980

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsErik OlssenThe author is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand

  • The making of a political machine

    Erik OlssenARTICLELabor History1978References: 7

  • Walter Nash

    Open AccessErik Olssen, Keith V Sinclair et al.ARTICLELabour History1978

  • John A. Lee

    Open AccessLen Richardson, Erik OlssenARTICLELabour History1978

  • John A. Lee, the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and “Worker Control” of the Building Industry

    Open AccessErik OlssenARTICLEPolitical Science1975

  • On Re-reading Plato and Dr. Popper

    Open AccessErik Olssen, E A OlssenARTICLEPolitical Science1963

    The sectarian bigotry of the partisans of free thought is notorious; but it is not an isolated case; it often happens that the very energy with which Liberals defend their own cause destroys their calm estimation of difficulties and makes them unjust towards their adversaries and therefore, in the last resort, dogmatic and illiberal.(Guido de Ruggiero, European Liberalism)