| Editorial | Labour History, 95 | The History Cooperative

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EDITORIAL

This issue continues the interest of the journal in publishing comparative labour history with a special thematic section comparing the experiences of Australia and New Zealand. Ray Markey and Kerry Taylor are to be congratulated for organising this project and editing the nine articles that arose from a conference in Auckland in January 2007. Previous projects have been published in Labour History relating to the comparison of the Australian experience with Canada and with the United Kingdom. Comparative labour history allows us to test 'home truths' we take for granted in our own national context. While there are similarities between Australia and New Zealand in terms of colonial heritage for example, there are differences in areas such as the structure of government – with federalism in Australia and a central national government in New Zealand; and the religious composition of the population – with a significantly lower proportion of Catholics in New Zealand than Australia. This group of articles examines gender, class, trade unions, labour parties, Rochdale consumer co-operatives and the role of the state. There are also contributions that examine the role of police in industrial disputes and explore the co-operation between the Australian and New Zealand labour movements. This thematic hopefully will encourage further contributions in the fields of comparative labour history and trans-national labour history. Future comparative projects for Australian labour historians could include Argentina, South Africa and the United States of America.

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