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Details of trade union traiing, 1951 Watersiders' reunion, Industrial Relations Society Meetings and Courses and Seminars
New Direction for Industrial Chaplains in New Zealand
The Rev. Canon Bill Wright, senior industrial chaplain on Teesside, U.K., spent eleven weeks in New Zealand this winter as the guest of ITIM (Inter-Church Trade & Industry Mission). His purpose in being here was to share insights from his own industrial involvement in the U.K., and to enable ITIM to review its own work and lay plans for the future
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Review of 1973 Jubiless Speeches to P.S.A. 60th Anniversary Special conference, A Conceptualization of Industrial Conflict and The Only Weapo
Notes on Industrial Legislation
Notes on the Equal Pay Amendment Bill, Industrial Relations Amendment Act 1976 and the Industrial Relations Amendment Bill (No. 3
Ideology and Industrial Relations in New Zealand
It is a truism that there is in New Zealand culture a widespread if inarticulate suspicion of ideas, of theory, of ideology and a general preference for the practically useful, for the matter-of-fact treatment of things, for the pragmatic. While the polarisation of theory and practice is not a logically sustainable one — pragmatism after all is based on some theory, some system or principle purporting to explain or predict relationships between events — nevertheless it has in New Zealand a strong emotive appeal that can be used to stigmatise those who profess a particular ideology or who dabble in the ‘unreal’ world of ideas
Institutions Established Under the New Zealand Industrial Relations Act 1973
Details the establishment of the Industrial Relations Council, Industrial Commission and the Industrial Cour
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Review of Industrial Laws of New Zealand and Seminar with the theme Work Participatio
The History and Development of Wage Fixing Legislation in the Private Sector
In New Zealand wage fixing was institutionalised at a very early stage in the economic development of the country. New Zealand wanted its workers and employers to be nurtured and controlled by legislation, and wages and conditions of employment and disputes concerning these matters determined within a compulsory system of industrial conciliation and arbitration. Under these procedures the Court of Arbitration in the early period of industrial relations in New Zealand played a very positive part in the determination of the level of wages in the contract of employment