Kōrero: Women’s labour organisations

First issue, The Working Woman

Peppered with comradely greetings and pledges of support, the front page of the first issue of The Working Woman showed the very strong links between the magazine and New Zealand’s Communist party. Elsie Farelly, editor of the newspaper during its short life, was a Communist party member at the time and a central figure in the unemployed women’s movement. In its few years of existence, The Working Woman recorded the efforts of women who were marginalised as workers to survive and organise.

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University of Auckland Library and Learning Services, Special Collections
Reference: Communist Party of New Zealand, Working Woman 1, no. 1 (1934): 1

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Megan Cook, 'Women’s labour organisations - Women and unemployment', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/26373/the-first-working-woman (accessed 24 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 20 Dec 2022