Comrade, 9781988587899
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A communist union leader’s life in a world of social change.

Comrade

bill andersen: a communist, working-class life

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    21 November 2022

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Summary

Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand’s trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke’s biography recovers the relationships between communism and working-class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades.

Starting with Bill’s experiences as a merchant seaman during World War Two, Locke draws on over forty oral interviews, as well as Bill’s unpublished autobiography, to explore what it meant to be a working-class, co…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781988587899
ISBN-10:1988587891
Author:Cybele Locke
Publisher:Bridget Williams Books
Imprint:Bridget Williams Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:21 November 2022
Weight:630g
Dimensions:240mm x 170mm
About The Author

Cybele Locke

Cybele Locke is a graduate of Otago and Auckland universities, who has published widely on labour history. Currently a senior lecturer in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, she was a participant in the activist movements of the late twentieth century.

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