Melanie Nolan Publications

Books

Breadwinning. New Zealand Women and the State, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2000 (ISBN 0-908812-97-3/386 pp.).

Kin: A Collective Biography of a New Zealand Working-class Family, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2005 (ISBN 1-877257-34-6/255 pp.). Awarded the 2006 ARANZ Wards Prize.

Edited Books

Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives, Auckland University Press/Pluto Press, Auckland & Sydney, 1994 (ISBN 1 86940 1077/368 pp.). Co-editor Caroline Daley. USA publication of the book: New York University Press, New York, 1994. Melanie Nolan and Caroline Daley, 'International Feminist Perspectives on Suffrage: An Introduction', pp. 1-22.

Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2005 (ISBN 1-877257-40-0/320 pp). Introduction: Melanie Nolan, ‘1913 in Retrospect: A Laboratory or a Battleground of Democracy?, pp. 21-40.

Articles and Book Chapters

'Sex or Class? The Politics of the Earliest Equal Pay Campaign in Victoria', in Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates, eds., Women, Work and the Labour Movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1991, (special issue of Labour History, vol. 61, November 1991), pp. 101-22.

'Family and Culture: Jack and Maggie McCullough and the Christchurch Skilled Working Class, 1880s-1920s', in John E. Martin and Kerry Taylor, eds., Culture and the Labour Movement, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1991, pp. 164-84.

'Making Clerks and Re-shaping the White-Collar Workforce in the Twentieth Century', Labour History, ( Sydney, Australia) vol. 63, November 1992, pp. 65-82.

'Margaret Scott Hawthorne' and with Penelope Harper, 'Harriet Morison', The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol. 2, 1870-1900, Bridget Williams Books/Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1993, pp. 203-4 and 336-7. 'Harriet Morison', reprinted in The Suffragists, Bridget Williams Books/Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1993, pp. 97-100.

'Employment Organisations'; and 'Dunedin Tailoresses' Union, 1889-1945', in Anne Else, ed., Women Together: A History of Women's Organisations in New Zealand: Nga Roopu Wahine o te Motu, Daphne Brassell/Department of nternal Affairs, Wellington, 1993, pp. 193-235 and 236-7.

'Female White Collar Factories? Braverman and Inter-war Victoria', Labour and Industry, ( Sydney, Australia) vol. 5, nos.1 & 2, March-June, 1993, pp. 49-66.

'Politics Swept Under a Domestic Carpet'? Fracturing Domesticity and the Male Breadwinner Wage: Women's Economic Citizenship, 1920s-40s', New Zealand Journal of History, ( Auckland, New Zealand) vol. 27, no. 2, October 1993, (special issue, Raewyn Dalziel, ed.,) pp. 199-217.

'Marx and Hormones: The Importance of Theory to Engendering New Zealand Labour History', in Pat Walsh, ed., Pioneering New Zealand Labour History: Essays in Honour of Bert Roth, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1994, pp. 66-79 & 136-43.

'The Road to Equality', New Zealand: Special Report' [on the 1993 Women's Suffrage Centenary] in Carey Denton, ed., The 1994 World Book Year Book, The Annual Supplement to The World Book Encyclopedia, World Book International, London, 1994, pp. 258-63.

with Pat Walsh, 'Labour's Leg Iron? Assessing Trade Unions and Arbitration in New Zealand', in Pat Walsh, ed., Trade Unions, Work and Society. The Centenary of the Arbitration System, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, 1994, pp. 9-37, and appendices pp. 199-204.

'Alice Eleanor Cossey' — 'Maria Selina Hale' — 'John Alexander McCullough' — 'Jane Elizabeth Runciman', The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol. 3, 1900-1920, Bridget Williams Books/Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 1996, pp. 116-7, 195-6, 290-292, 447-49.

'The White Blouse Revolution: Heroic and Anti-heroic Interpretations of the Feminization of Work', in Margaret Maynard, Advisory Ed., Designing Women, Brisbane, 1997, (special issue of Journal of Australian Studies, 1997, vol. 52), pp. 54-66.

'Alice Mary Cassie' —'Frederick Daniel Cornwell' — 'Sarah Ellen Oliver Snow', The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol. 4, Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books/Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington , 1998, pp. 92-3, 112-3, 485-6.

'Unstitching the New Zealand State: Its Role in Domesticity and its Decline', International Review of Social History (Cambridge, UK), vol. 45, no. 2, August 2000, pp. 251-277.

'Doris Adelaide Palmer' — 'Nada Hazel Clark' — 'Frances May Don', The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol. 5, Auckland University Press/ Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 2000, pp. 392-3, 104-5, 149-50.

'Putting the State in its Place: the Domestic Education Debate in New Zealand', History of Education ( Sheffield, UK), vol. 30, no. 1, 2001, pp. 13-33.

'A Subversive State? Domesticity in Dispute in 1950s New Zealand', Journal of Family History. Studies in Family, Kinship and Demography (Thousand Oaks, CA), vol. 27, no. 1, January 2002, pp. 60-81.

'Gender and the Politics of Keeping Left: Wellington Labour Women and their Community 1912-1949', in Barbara Brookes and Dorothy Page, eds., Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2002, pp. 147-161.

'The High Tide of a Labour Market System: The Australasian Male Breadwinner Model', Labour and Industry ( Melbourne), vol. 13, no. 3, April 2003, pp. 73-92.

with Shaun Ryan, 'Transforming Unionism by Organizing? An examination of the gender revolution in New Zealand trade unionism since 1975', Labour History (Sydney), no. 84, May 2003, pp. 89-111.

'Maritime Strike 1890, Australasia', in Neil Schlager, ed., St JamesEncyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide, 2 vols., Gale Group, Chicago, 2003, pp. 587-591.

‘'The Women Were Bloody Marvellous': 1951, Gender and New Zealand Industrial Relations’, Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (Keele, UK), no. 16, Autumn 2003, pp. 117-139.

with Barbara Harrison, 'Reflections in Colonial Glass? Women Factory Inspectors in Britain and New Zealand 1893-1921', Women's History Review (UK), vol. 13, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 263-287.

‘Shattering Dreams About Women in the 1951 Lockout’, in David Grant, ed., The Big Blue. Snapshots of the 1951 Waterfront Lockout, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2004, pp. 59-81.

 ‘Writing the Biography of an Irish Protestant and New Zealand Working Class Family’, in Brad Patterson, ed., From Ulster to New Ulster. The 2003 Ulster-New Zealand Lectures, Institute of Ulster Scots Studies, University of Ulster/Irish-Scottish Studies Programme, Stout Research Centre, Wellington, 2004, pp. 25-49.

‘Kith, Kirk and the Working Class: A Transfer of Ulster-Scots Culture to New Zealand?’, Saothar: Journal of Irish Labour History Society, ( Dublin, Ireland), vol. 29, 2004, pp. 19-31.

‘Pacific Currents in the Tasman? New Zealand Labour History, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives’, Labour History (Sydney), no. 88, May 2005, pp. 233-41.

‘The State Changing its Mind? Australian and New Zealand Governments’ Postwar Policy on Married Women’s Paid Employment’, in Patricia Grimshaw, John Murphy and Belinda Probert, eds., Double Shift: Working Mothers and Social Change in Australia, Circa, Melbourne Publishing Group, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 153-176.

‘Industrialisation', in Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine and Ann Curthoys, eds., A Companion to Women's Historical Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005, pp. 255-264.

with Marjan Kljakovic, ‘A Professional Myth: Personal Continuity of Care and New Zealand General Practice in the Twentieth Century’, Social History of Medicine, (Oxford University Press, UK) vol. 18, no. 2, August 2005, pp. 265-282.

‘Was there a Hidden ‘Orange Mark’ on the New Zealand Labour Movement?’, in Brad Patterson, ed., Ulster-New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers, Four Courts, Dublin, 2005, pp. 165-182.

‘ "Do your share, like a man!": the issue of gender during the strike’ , in Melanie Nolan, ed., Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, anterbury University Press, Christchurch, 2005, pp. 237-259.

‘‘Keeping the Home Fires Burning’: Gender, Welfare and World War One’, in John Crawford and Ian McGibbon eds., New Zealand’s Great War. New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War, Exisle, Auckland and Sydney, 2007, pp. 493-517.

Review articles

'Questions Posed by a Critical Mass: A Feminist Labour History Example', New Zealand Historical Association Newsletter, no. 4, December 1992, pp. 6-8.

'The Place of the Few Among the Many? A review article on The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume Five, 1941-1960', Ministry of Culture and Heritage E-journal, Making History, http://www.mch.govt.nz/History/making-history/dnzb.html.

Book reviews for a range of journals including, Women's History Review,New Zealand Books: a quarterly review,Archifacts, New Zealand Journal of History, New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations,Labour History. A Journal of Labour and Social History, The Journal of Industrial Relations,People's History, Labor History, Political Science, History Now. Te Pae Tawhito O Te Wa, Australian Historical Studies,Women in Management Review, Social History.

Interview

'Women and the State': Melanie Nolan interviewed by Ian Campbell, History Now. Te Pae Tawhito Te Wa, vol. 7, no. 1, February 2001, pp. 3-5 (written responses to questions).