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Article Excerpt
Melanie Nolan, Kin: A Collective Biography of a New Zealand Working-Class Family (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005)
MELANIE NOLAN has written a carefully crafted, highly readable, and intriguing history of the lives of five New Zealand siblings, the McCulloughs. Perhaps the best known of the siblings was Jack, a skilled artisan, Workers' Representative on the Arbitration Court from 1908-1921, founder of the Christchurch Socialist Church, pacifist, journalist, Labour Party member, and finally, member of the Legislative Council from 1936 to 1947. In Kin, Nolan has returned to the life of Jack McCullough, whose political biography was the subject of her MA thesis. Not content with the direction of New Zealand historiography concerning labour and working-class history, however, Nolan's collective biography of this working-class family revisits an important debate about working-class formation, identity, experience, and consciousness.
Kin sets out to uncover aspects of collective working-class life that Nolan contends have been neglected by New Zealand labour and working-class historians: moderate unionism; religion and temperance organizing; the role of friendly societies and corporate welfarism; patriotism; and finally, the rise of the white-collar revolution that opened a path to working-class mobility into...
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