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Title: |
Working Lives c. 1900 |
| Sub-title: |
A Photographic Essay |
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| By (author): |
Erik Olssen |
| ISBN10-13: |
1877578517 : 9781877578519 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w photos & colour paintings |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
266x203x12mm |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Weight: |
.618 Kg. |
| Published: |
Otago University Press (NZ) - January 2014 |
| List Price: |
22.50 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 12 |
| Subjects: |
Photography & photographs : Photographs: collections : Australasian & Pacific history : 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 : Social & cultural history : New Zealand |
| For the men and women of the skilled trades in the early 20th century, the skills and knowledge of their respective crafts were a source of identity and pride. Together with the so-called unskilled, who built the infrastructure for the new society, these workers laid the cultural and social foundations of a new and fairer society. This book uses photographs to show two processes fundamental to creating a new society: the transformation of swamp into farmland then cityscape, and the transplantation of the knowledge and skill acquired in the Old World that were essential to building a new world. |
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