Category Archives: Political Economy & History

Three New Zealand Depressions

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New Zealand and the World: Essays in Honour of Wolf Rosenberg ed W.E. Wilmott, (1980) p.72-87.

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The graphs which illustrated the tables are not included

By 1979 it was evident to even the conventional wisdom that New Zealand was in its greatest economic crisis since the 1930s. It is natural to ask whether there are similarities between this crisis and the earlier ones in the 1880s and the 19305, and if so, whether we can learn from our history.

The Third Great Depression

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Listener 10 December, 1977. This is the first of my Listener columns

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New Zealand is in the middle of its third great depression. Our first, the long depression, commenced in the late 1860s and finished in the 1890s. Our second, the inter-war depression, was from 1921 to 1939. The third comrnenced in the mid-1960s; its end is not in sight.

Class and Sport

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This is an inset that was published with my ‘Social Class: Jack and his Master’ published in “New Zealand Today” (Universal Books 1973) p.83. There have been a slight change in layout. The original had three columns

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Class appears in New Zealand sporting activities. In List I below, the 1972 New Zealand rugby league team are seen to be mainly factory, sales and clerical workers. In List II the 1972 All Black test team plus reserves are seen to be mainly professional men and farmers. The third List is a representative set of occupations for New Zealand men in their twenties [based on the 1971 Census]. By comparison it can be seen that the rugby league team is more representative of New Zealanders in this respect than the All Blacks.