Ray Markey and Kerry Taylor

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Ray Markey and Kerry Taylor | Trans-Tasman Labour History: Introduction | Labour History, 95 | The History Cooperative

Trans-Tasman Labour History: Introduction

The eight articles in this thematic section of Labour History arose from the Trans-Tasman Labour History Conference held in Auckland in early 2007. The articles have been edited by Ray Markey and Kerry Taylor.

Until recently, labour history has focused upon developments within the confines of the nation state and generally, labour movements have also been bounded in this way, notwithstanding a long tradition of internationalism in their vision. Even in Australia and New Zealand the traditional focus for labour history has been predominantly framed by the nation state, even though there have always been strong connections between the two societies. In recent years Donald Denoon, Francis Castles, Eric Fry, Raelene Frances, Bruce Scates, Melanie Nolan and James Bennett have rediscovered the trans-Tasman world of labour that operated from earliest colonial times. In addition, there has been a growing international interest in the development of comparative and transnational perspectives in history. Recent trends have moved beyond an international comparative approach, to analysis of global and transnational dynamics of social and economic formations and experience.

The thematic articles in this issue grew out of the conference on 'Trans-Tasman Labour History: Comparative or Transnational' organised by the Centre for Work and Labour Market Studies at Auckland University of Technology from 30 January to 1 February 2007. Invited speakers from Australia and New Zealand presented parallel papers on specified themes, and other papers addressed specific issues of transnational or comparative labour history in the trans-Tasman context. All contributors were invited to revise their papers for submission to this special thematic section of Labour History. Those who had written comparable papers on the same topic for Australia and New Zealand were asked to merge their papers into a transnational or comparative analysis. In other cases, single authors had already developed these perspectives.

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