Shear Hard Work: A History of New Zealand Shearing - Riseborough, Hazel
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Telling the story of shearers from the 1860s to the present day, this collection brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. Shearers have played a key role in New Zealand life, and this book chronicles key changes in the business--from the mechanization of shearing to the expansion of the shearing season and the shrinking of the New Zealand flock. It explores the changing culture of shearing--the way Maori whanau turned themselves into successful shearing gangs, how women entered the sheds as wool handlers and wound up as world-record shearers, and how Ivan and Godfrey…mehr

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Telling the story of shearers from the 1860s to the present day, this collection brings to life the world of the shearing shed for the first time. Shearers have played a key role in New Zealand life, and this book chronicles key changes in the business--from the mechanization of shearing to the expansion of the shearing season and the shrinking of the New Zealand flock. It explores the changing culture of shearing--the way Maori whanau turned themselves into successful shearing gangs, how women entered the sheds as wool handlers and wound up as world-record shearers, and how Ivan and Godfrey Bowen professionalized the business. Delving into the heart of rural New Zealand, this compilation illuminates larger themes in New Zealand history--interactions between Maori and Pakeha, rural and urban society, change and tradition--and introduces some extraordinary New Zealanders who work as shearers today.
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Autorenporträt
Hazel Riseborough is a historian and the author of Days of Darkness: Taranaki, 1878-1884 and Ngamatea: The Land and the People.