Kōrero: Class

Rural workers

Rural workers

These men, on the banks of the Ashburton River in 1903, are waiting for the harvest to begin on the large farms of Canterbury. Like many rural workers they were highly itinerant, moving with the seasons to pick up short-term work. The man on the left has a swag containing his blanket and clothes. The spasmodic nature of much rural work meant that there was little specialisation and a relatively flat occupational hierarchy among the workers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Otago Witness, 20 May 1903, p. 41 (N-P 1431-41)

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jock Phillips, 'Class - Colonial society – the working class', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/29722/rural-workers (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 22 May 2018