Class, Skill and Control in a Southern City

Skilled workers and their unions have long held a central place in New Zealand labour history. While there has been much written about the economic position and industrial and political mobilisation of the skilled, less is known about their lives in terms of marital and residential differentiation and segregation, and their activities in voluntary associations. This article adopts a micro-historical approach and uses Hobsbawm’s ‘aristocracy of labour’ criteria to describe and interpret the economic and social position of members of the Dunedin branch of a New Zealand trade union, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, for skilled engineering workers. In doing so, it makes reference to a large body of work that examines the process of class formation in one of New Zealand’s oldest industrial suburbs

Class (philosophy) · Control (management) · Economics · Management · Operations management · Operations research · Artificial Intelligence · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Labor Movements and Unions

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