'Turning tramps into taxpayers' : the Department of Labour and the casual labourer in the 1890's : thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History

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dc.contributor.authorGibbons, Peter John
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-04T00:05:37Z
dc.date.available2015-09-04T00:05:37Z
dc.date.issued1970
dc.description.abstract[No abstract. The following taken from the Preface:] This thesis (or essay, since it is in scope and shape an exploratory essay rather than a monograph) studies an aspect of the growth of government administration in New Zealand. The thesis suggests that a major expansion of administration took place in the Liberal period, 1891-1914, and within this general context analyses the work of one government department, the Labour Department; showing hot that Department tackled the problem of unemployment in the 1890's, and how its administration tended gradually to control and to coerce recalcitrant elements among the unemployed. The Labour Department has been taken, in effect, as a 'test case'. The direction of the study might be shown more clearly by reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. For those not initiates, see J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Third edition (London, 1966), PP. 51 and following. Bilbo and the Dwarves, it will be recalled, made the acquaintance of a mountain which sadly contained the dreaded Goblin King and his minions; it also contained (happily for the continuance of the story) many tunnels, ranging from a Great Hall down to little appertures in the bowels of the hill. Here we may call the mountain the Liberal period, the Great Hall - which we investigate hurriedly - the Liberal bureaucracy, one of the lesser halls is the Labour Department, and then one of the tunnels off that is the unemployment business of the Department's work.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/7020
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectNew Zealand Department of Labouren_US
dc.subjectCasual labour, New Zealanden_US
dc.subjectNew Zealand government department historyen_US
dc.title'Turning tramps into taxpayers' : the Department of Labour and the casual labourer in the 1890's : thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Historyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorGibbons, P. J. (Peter John)en_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
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