Comrade

Bill Andersen: A Communist, Working-Class Life

Comrade
Cybele Locke
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Paperback
h240 x 170mm - 352pg
15 Nov 2021 NZ
Locally sourced in NZ eta 7-15 days
9781988587899
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Bill Andersen was one of the most significant figures in New Zealand' s trade union movement in the later twentieth century. Cybele Locke' s biography recovers the relationships between communism and working class trade unionism during World War Two and the following decades. Starting with Bill' s experiences as a merchant seaman during World War Two, Locke draws on over forty oral interviews, as well as Bill' s unpublished autobiography, to explore what it meant to be a working class, communist trade unionist through those years. As a history centred on biography, The Man Who Stopped Auckland tells a riveting story of labour activism and social change. The post-war splintering of the world communist movement fractured New Zealand communists; in the 1970s, the Northern Drivers' Union emerged as a powerful social movement; and Maori land rights and sovereignty activism reframed radicalism through the last decades of the century. The impact of neo-liberalism on trade unions in the late 1980s and 1990s is starkly shown. The histories of working people, of organised labour, and of left-wing movements are too little told in Aotearoa New Zealand. Writing with insight and empathy, Cybele Locke has provided a highly readable account of a communist union leader navigating the social and political turmoil of the twentieth century.
Cybele Locke is a graduate of Otago and Auckland universities, who has published widely on labour history. Currently a senior lecturer in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, she was a participant in the activist movements of the late twentieth century.

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